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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Douw Janszoon Vanarentsvelt Note Born: 1580 at Harlingen, , Friesland, Netherlands Married: Nov 1609 at Leiden, , South Holland, Netherlands Died: 1653 at Leiden, , South Holland, Netherlands Other Spouses: Elsge Douwes
Father: _allied Families_ Mother: Unknown
WIFE
Name: Maria Jans Note Born: 1589 at Leiden, , South Holland, Netherlands Died: 1622
CHILDREN
Name: Volckert Jansen Douw Born: 1610 at Leeuwarden, , Friesland, Netherlands Died: 1681 at Beverwyck now Albany , , , NY Wife: Dorothe Janse Vanbreestede
Name: Gerard Douw Born: 7 Apr 1613 at Leiden, , South Holland, Netherlands Died: 9 Feb 1675
Name: Hester Douw Jans Born: 1616 at Leiden, , South Holland, Netherlands Died: 1690 at Albany Co., , , NY Husband: Jellis Douw Fonda
NOTES
1). b. Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands d. Leiden, Friesland, Netherlands was a master glazier glassware merchant who settled in Leyden soon after 1600 where he met and m. Maria Janse, dau. of Jans of Wassenaer, from Roozenberg, widow ofVechtor Vechterzoon Cuyper, also a glass worker. Douw became Burgess Mayor of Leyden in 1615 and also head of the glassmakers guild. He had many apprentices and at his death had many houses in the Kort Rappenburg part of Leyden, eastside full name Douw Janszoon deVries VanArentsvelt which means Douw s o Jans of Vries from Arents Field Douw s second son was Gerard Douw also known as Gerrit Dou , a popular Dutch genre and portrait painter of Leiden. Gerard wasapprenticed to an engraver and worked from 1628 to 1631 inthe studio of the young Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Although he occasionally borrowed Rembrandt s themes, he was more detailed and meticulous in his execution. His scenes ofdomestic, middle class life were tremendously popular and often imitated. Among his most famous works are Evening Light Rijks Museum , Young Man The Hague , The Cook Louvre , and a self portrait Metropolitan Museum . He was the founderof the school known as the Fijnschilders fine painters whose influence lasted into the nineteenth century. His whole life was spent in Leiden, where he owned four houses. Gerrit Dou never married and had the reputation of beingobsessively neat and detail oriented. He died in Leiden in 1675 and was buried in the St. Pieters Kerk on 9 February of the same year. R035 Amsterdam Records of the Fonda Family R074a The Mayflower Descendant www.fonda.org
2).  b. Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands  widow of Vechter Cuyper of Strejtvelt in 1604 with whom she had 2 children   Vector and Tryntjen  who m. Simon VanTol, a pupil of Gerardus Douw, who became a painter of note    R074a  The MayflowerDescendant    www.fonda.org

						

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