Pieter van den Broecke
Pieter van den Broecke (* 1585 ; † 1640 ) was a Dutch military man and merchant who lived in Haarlem and was friends with the painter Frans Hals . In 1633 he was portrayed by him.
Life
Pieter van den Broecke was a cloth merchant and traveled with fabrics from Holland to West Africa and Arabia, where he sold them. In 1614 he gave the then governor of Aden two small Haarlem smallen , these were silk fabrics from Haarlem, which were produced on very narrow looms. He then served 17 years until 1630 in the Dutch military of the East India Company in Java , in Arabia, Persia and India . As a farewell, he received a gold chain worth 1,200 guilders .
Pieter van den Broecke is assigned to Frans Hals 'closest circle of friends, as can be seen from the baptismal papers of Hals' daughter Susanna. Van de Broecke was the first godfather at this baptism, and the Haarlem engraver Adrien Jacobsz Mathan has been identified as the second godfather . Frans Hals portrayed Pieter van den Broecke probably in 1633 as a chest portrait in noble clothing with the named gold necklace.
In 1634 he published an account of his life as a traveling salesman in Africa and the Orient . An engraving of the Hals painting, made in 1633 by Adrien Jacobsz Mathan, is depicted on the cover. Van der Broecke is shown in this picture in an oval with coat of arms and dolphin decorations.
Fonts
- Pieter van den Broecke: Korte historiael ende Journaelsche aenteyckeninghe, van al't geen merck-waerdigh voorgevallen is, in de langhdurige Reysen, soo nae Cabo Verde, Angola [etc.] as insonderheyd van East India , printer: Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch , Haerlem (Haarlem) 1634
- Pieter van den Broecke, Klaas Ratelband: Reizen naar West-Afrika van Pieter van den Broecke, 1605–1614 , Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1950.
- Pieter van den Broecke, Willem Philippus Coolhaas: Pieter van den Broecke in Azië , Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1962–1963.
- Pieter van den Broecke: Station Azores , Boer, Bussum 1970
- Pieter van den Broecke, JD La Fleur: Pieter Van Den Broecke's journal of voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605–1612) , Hakluyt Society, London 2000.
literature
- Seymour Slive (Ed.): Frans Hals. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-7913-1030-5 .
- Pieter Lodewijk Muller: Broecke, Pieter van den . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 344 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Broecke, Pieter van den |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch military and merchant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1585 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1640 |