Jan Vos (poet)
Jan Jansz. Vos (baptised 4 March 1612 in
Life
On 20 February 1639, at the old City Hall of Amsterdam, he married Grietje Gerrets (1616 - 1651), already pregnant by him. They had two children: Jan (who only lived a few days) and Maria (who in 1664 laid the first stone for the new theatre). Jan Vos was of good family and lived in the
In his Klucht van Oene ("The Farce of Oene", 1642), a number of dishonest practices by Amsterdam merchants and industrialists are criticized - bakers of bread short-selling their customers, tailors filching pieces of cloth owned by their patrons, glassmakers cheating with glass quantities, dyers of silk tampering with their material. In addition, house-agents, pawnbrokers, cashiers, notaries public and secretaries, landlords, millers, doctors, barbers, pharmacists and booksellers enter the stage.
Jan Vos was a sought-after table companion of such leading families as those of
Jan Vos was head of the
Jan Vos had a good eye for the public taste, and was repeatedly entrusted by the city authorities with designing and overseeing pageants and spectacles. In 1654, Vos organized ten performances celebrating the
Notes
References
- Dudok van Heel, S.A.C. (1980), "Jan Vos (1610 - 1667)." In: Jaarboek Amstelodamum, p. 23-43.
- Schwartz, G. (1987), Rembrandt, zijn leven, zijn schilderijen. Een nieuwe biografie met alle beschikbare schilderijen in kleur afgebeeld, p. 257-283.
External links
Media related to Jan Vos at Wikimedia Commons