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Nicolaes van Galen Gentlemen at Rest Oil on panel. 39 x 28 cm.
Count Willem III Presides over the Execution of the Dishonest Bailiff in 1336
Signed by N v Galen and dated 1657 (190 x 213 cm)
The life of Nicolaes van Galen of HASSELT
Hasselt's seal & coat of arms
Genealogy
Nicolaes' father Jorrien van Galen, the son of the Zutphen citizen Jan van Galen, married Rijckien van Ittersum, daughter of Hendrick van Ittersum, licensee at Hasselt, and Carsien Claesen, in Zutphen on 10 November 1605.
Hendrick van Ittersum was mayor of Hasselt in his later life.
Little is known about the life of Nicolaes van Galen; his name has so far not been found in baptismal books. Nicolaes was born either just before 1614 otherwise around 1620.
Gaps in the Hasselt baptismal book from 1599 Oct 14 to 1601 Sep 27, from 1602 Mar 21 to 1613 Oct 31 and from 1637 Dec 17 to 1648 Mar 29
Of Jorrien and Rijckien six children are known, four sons and two daughters. The eldest son Jan died at an early age, as another son was later given the same name.
Jentien and Albert were born in Hasselt in 1615 and 1618, respectively.
Jentien
Albert
No baptismal evidence has been found of the youngest children, Aeltien, Nicolaes and Jan, and their existence can be deduced from an estate division 1647. It is known that Jorrien remarried Aeltien Cornelis around 1647.
Op 08-02-1649 treedt Nicolaes te Amersfoort in het huwelijk met Jannete Ferreris dochter van Theodor Ferreris en Henrica Both.
Civil marriage Theodor Fereris and Henrickgen Bots 03-05-1600
St Joris Kerk Amersfoort 08-02-1649
On 08-02-1649, Nicolaes married Jannete Ferreris daughter of Theodor Ferreris en Henrica Both.
The Ferreris family has Italian roots and is originally from Piedmont. The family operated fief banks (lommerds) in several cities.
Notariële archieven met twee onmondige kinderen van + Theodor Ferreris
Marriage of Nicolaes van Galen van HASSELT and Jannette (baptismal act Johanna) Ferreris van AMERSFOORT
Johanna (Jannette Joanna) was baptised in Amersfoort on 30 January 1617.
Nicolaes and Jannette settled in Campen where their daughter Rijckjen was baptised on 18 September 1650, followed by a son Theodoor on 8 August 1652.
In 1652, Claes van Galen was in contact with an Amsterdam art dealer, Jacob Ritsma. In an authorisation where he urged Ritsma, through a notary, to pay him, he described himself as ‘Claes van Galen, painter, living in Campen’.
The only evidence in writing that Claes van Galen was a painter.
In 1653, Nicolaes started a bank of loan in Hasselt.
Another daughter Henderijna was baptised here on 26 December 1658.
Nicolaes is mentioned as gasthuismeester at Hasselt in 1676 and for the last time as banker on 17 April 1683.
CAMPEN 1684 DIED
Registers of deceased and buried of the Bovenkerk Kampen, 1661 - 1812.
De registers inv.nrs. 345 and 347-349 also contain entries of burial and luig fees and settlements of these monies.
See also inv.nos. 321 and 322.
A probable nephew of van Galen's father-in-law, Bartholomeus Ferreris, who had a bank of loan at Delft and Leiden in the late 16th century, is said by Karel van Mander to have been both a painter and an art collector.
ZIE KAREL VAN MANDER
Two older brothers of Jannette Ferreris, Bernard and Hendrick Ferreris, were married to two Enkhuizer sisters, Susanna and Hesther (de) la Via, also of Italian descent.
From Bernard and Susanne, a son Dirck was baptised on 18 October 1639.
Dirck (Theodoor) Ferreris, reformed baptised Enkhuizen 18-10-1639 (get. Cornelia de la Via), buried Enkhuizen Westerkerk 25-10-1692 identical to the painter Dirck or Theodoor Ferreris (Freres) goes to Italy with the painter Adriaen Backer in 1666, returns in 1667, lives in Amsterdam where he works for the art dealer Gerrit Uylenburgh, collaborates with Gerard de Lairesse on paintings in Huis Soestdijk leaves for England in 1678 to work for the painter Peter Lely, works from 1688 to 1692 on the embellishment of the Enkhuizen town hall for which he provides various paintings and wall decorations, is mentioned several times (1676, 1677, 1691, 1692) in the journals of Constantijn Huygens Jr
Allegory of good governance, lower right: TFerreri, 191 x 181 cm, oil on canvas.
Count Willem III Presides over the Execution of the Dishonest Bailiff in 1336
Signed by N v Galen and dated 1657 from 1657 to present COUNCIL HOUSE HASSELT (190 x 213 cm)
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