Johan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen

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Huydecoper and his rifle brotherhood (detail painting by Govert Flinck , 1648, in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum )

Johan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (* 1599 in Amsterdam ; † 1661 ), army of Maarsseveen , Neerdijk, Thamen and Blokland , knight in the Ordre de Saint-Michel , was an important regent and mayor of Amsterdam from the Huydecoper van Maarsseveen family . It is representative of the love for art, political influence and welfare in the Golden Age .

Origin and youth

Johan Huydecoper was the son of Jan Jacobsz Bal, called Huydecoper , and Elisabeth van Gemen. Jan Jacobs Bal was a member of the Amsterdam city government ( Vroedschap ) and one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1602.

Huydecoper was already an art collector in his youth ; in 1628 he was one of the first buyers of paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn . Huydecoper and Rembrandt currently lived or worked in the Sint Anthoniesbreestraat , where many artists stayed at that time. Huydecoper became the patron saint of the poet Jan Vos , who praised his city ​​palace on the Singel, designed by Philips Vingboons in 1639, and his collection of paintings, as well as the painters Govaert Flinck and Bartholomeus van der Helst , who portrayed him.

Career in the Golden Age

Johan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (1651)
Sub-article: Regent of Amsterdam

In 1631 Johan Huydecoper was accepted into the city government as protégé Jakob Dircksz de Graeffs as Vroedschap. In the following years he was able to purchase land not far from Maarssen , where no peat was extracted in the Maarsseveen district after 1600 and was therefore free for sale. Huydecoper became a settlement planner and increased his wealth when he sold country houses to the Vecht . In 1636 Huydecoper got a noble title in Sweden, perhaps because the country (ruled by Axel Oxenstierna ) needed money. From 1644 he took part in the Amsterdam city government as Schepen .

In 1650 Huydecoper van Maarsseveen was one of the four mayors of Amsterdam. In the dispute between the Orange and the Bicker family , Huydecoper was commissioned by Cornelis Bicker, together with Amsterdam's Schout Simon van der Does, to present the enemy with serious intentions in defense on behalf of the unyielding city government. At the behest of the regents, the city gates were closed, the surrounding area flooded and the inhabitants mobilized - to defend themselves against the troops of the governor William II of Orange . He wanted to make the all-powerful, republican-minded province of Holland and its socio-political and economic center - the city of Amsterdam - compliant. When the governor died within a few months, he still had no successor. In 1654 there was an act of seclusion , which provided for the exclusion of the Orange from high state offices.

During his time as mayor, he took part in the city's major expansion plan and decided which artists should be commissioned to decorate the Amsterdam City Hall . Huydecoper was politically on the side of the regent Cornelis de Graeff and his younger brother Andries . In 1653 he traveled to Lübeck and in 1655 to Berlin together with his son Joan Huydecoper (II) van Maarsseveen , who later also had a lot of influence as mayor, and Pieter de Graeff . He had to negotiate with Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg about an alliance aimed at by Amsterdam against Sweden. On behalf of the city of Amsterdam, Huydecoper took over the sponsorship of the Elector's son Karl Emil von Brandenburg and gave him several cannons. The elector then became a Dutch ally. In 1660, Huydecoper van Maarsseveen, along with Cornelis van Vlooswyck , Coenraad van Beuningen and Pieter de Groot, was Amsterdam's ambassador to King Charles II to congratulate him on his renewed accession to the throne in The Hague. In 1661, Huydecoper received a visit from Amalie zu Solms-Braunfels at his country house in Goudestein am Vecht . Shortly afterwards he died.

Web links

Commons : Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (1599–1661)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Israel, J. (1989) Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740, p. 71.
  2. ^ Schwarz, G. (1987) Rembrandt, p. 134.
  3. ↑ Weber, Gregor JM (1991) The praise of the 'living' picture: Jan Vos and his "Zeege der Schilderkunst" from 1654, ISBN 3-487-09604-8 .
  4. ↑ Huydecopers Stadtpalais, Singel 548 ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rijksmuseum.nl
  5. ↑ Google Book Search: Rembrandt: his life, his paintings: a new biography with all accessible paintings illustrated in color. By Gary Schwartz, p. 146
  6. ↑ Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 8. Tweede stuk; Biography of Mr. Johan Huydecoper
  7. ↑ Die Chronik der Menschheit (1995), p. 517.
  8. ^ DBNL, De Gids. Jaargang 14, p. 625
personal data
SURNAME Huydecoper van Maarsseveen, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Amsterdam
DATE OF BIRTH 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH 1661
Place of death Amsterdam