Jan Reynst (26 October 1601 – 29 June 1646) was a Protestant Dutch merchant in Amsterdam and, with his elder brother Gerrit , an art collector and owner of the Reynst collection .
11-558: Gerrit Reynst (1599 – 29 June 1658) (also known as Gerard Reynst) was, like his younger brother Jan (1601–1646), a Dutch merchant and art collector from Amsterdam, with his brother owner of the Reynst Collection . He was an alderman and member of the town council , entering it in 1646. Reynst was born in Amsterdam , the son of the merchant Gerard Reynst from the Reynst family , who in
22-502: A church. On 28 April 1888 it opened its doors for the public as a museum, making it the second oldest museum in Amsterdam, after Rijksmuseum Amsterdam . The museum was previously named Museum Amstelkring and is now called Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder (English: Museum Our Lord in the Attic). Annually, about 85,000 people visit the museum. The museum contains the front room, the between room,
33-624: A house that housed a secret Catholic church (now the Museum Amstelkring ), planning to rent it out as storage space but instead realising he could make more money from charging Catholic worshippers to continue using their secret church. He died in Venice . This article about a person from the Netherlands is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Museum Amstelkring Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder ( OLHOS ; English: Our Lord in
44-469: A museum since 28 April 1888, and has 85,000 visitors annually. The canal house on the 14th century canal Oudezijds Voorburgwal , currently on number 40, was built in 1630. Between 1661 and 1663 the top three floors of the house were changed into a house church . The building was renovated in the 18th and 19th centuries. After the Church of St Nicholas was opened, the house church was no longer in use as
55-502: A selection of 112 items in the collection with the help of Gerard de Lairesse as Signorum Veterum Icones , and opened his house to visitors. Amalia van Solms and Cosimo de' Medici were some of the more notable visitors. Reynst never lived to see his book published, since he drowned in the canal in front of his Amsterdam house in 1658. Gerrit's collection included Italian old-master paintings and antiquities, such as The Ecstasy of St Paul by Johann Liss . After Gerrit's death in 1658
66-512: The Attic ) is a 17th-century canal house , house church , and museum in the city center of Amsterdam , The Netherlands . The Catholic Church was built on the top three floors of the canal house during the 1660s. It is an important example of a "schuilkerk", or " clandestine church " in which Catholics and other religious dissenters from the seventeenth century Dutch Reformed Church, unable to worship in public, held services. The church has been open as
77-470: The collection dispersed into English, German and other Dutch collections, including what is now the Antikensammlung Berlin , and some remained with his widow Anna. The Dutch Republic bought 24 of the best Italian paintings and 12 of the best Classical sculptures from Gerrit's widow in 1660 for 80,000 gulden, via Heer van Outshoorn. [1] This collection was given to English King Charles II (many of
88-745: The paintings in it had previously been in Charles I 's collection, and been sold to Reynst by the Commonwealth government) on his return from the Netherlands to England, and is known as the Dutch Gift . One of the paintings may have been Guercino 's, "Semiramis Receiving Word of the Revolt of Babylon". (A series of engravings of pictures from his collection was made sometime before his death, including one by Jeremias Falk of Guercino's Semiramis.) Jan Reynst Reynst
99-558: The so called Reynst collection - of 230 sculptures and 140 paintings of the estate Andrea Vendramin in 1629. After his death the Roman statues and Italian paintings by Barocci , Bassano , Bellini , Paris Bordone , Pordenone , Palma Vecchio Giorgione , Lorenzo Lotto , Parmigianino , Guido Reni , Giulio Romano , Tintoretto , Titian , Andrea Schiavone , Perugino , Antonello da Messina and Paolo Veronese were shipped to his brother in Amsterdam. In 1671 Jan Reynst (his son?) bought
110-603: The year 1614 became the second Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies , and Margrieta Nicquet, whose merchant brother Jacques Nicquet was a fervent art collector. Gerard Jr. lived in a house called De Hoop at Keizersgracht 209 that he later made into an art museum. His brother Jan was a collector of antique statuary and Italian paintings who was able to purchase the collection of the estate Andrea Vendramin in 1629, 230 sculptures and 140 paintings. After Jan's death in 1646 almost all of these were sent to Gerard, who published
121-402: Was born in Amsterdam , the son of the merchant Gerard Reynst of the Reynst family , who in the year 1614 became the second Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies , and Margrieta Nicquet, whose merchant brother Jacques Nicquet was a fervent art collector. In 1625 Jan went to Venice where he collected antique statuary and Italian paintings and where he was able to purchase the collection -
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