Jan Reynst (26 October 1601 – 29 June 1646) was a

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merchant in

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and, with his elder brother

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, an art collector and owner of the Reynst collection.

Life

Reynst was born in

, the son of the merchant

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of the Reynst family, who in the year 1614 became the second

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, 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 - the so called Reynst collection - of 230 sculptures and 140 paintings of the estate Andrea

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in 1629. After his death the Roman statues and Italian paintings by

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, Bassano, Bellini,

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and

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were shipped to his brother in Amsterdam.Museum kennis
(Dutch) In 1671 Jan Reynst (his son?) bought a house that housed a secret Catholic church (now the

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), 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

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The Reynst collection
1601 births 1646 deaths Art collectors from Amsterdam {{Netherlands-bio-stub

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