Frans Hals - Jacob Druyvesteyn - Hendrik Pot - detail of schutterstuk 1639

Jacob Druyvesteyn (1612 – 1691) was a Dutch lawyer and mayor of

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

Biography

He was born in Haarlem as the son of

Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn Aernout or Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn (1577 – 5 August 1627) was a Dutch Golden Age lawyer, painter, and mayor of Haarlem. Biography According to Van Mander in 1604, he was a promising young landscape painter who came from a good family in Ha ...

and became a lawyer.Jacob Druyvesteyn
in A. J. van der Aa He was appointed magistrate in the

city council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...

from 1637 and in 1639 he was portrayed as a flag bearer in

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

' schutterstuk ''

The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639 ''The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639'' refers to the last and largest schutterstuk painted by Frans Hals for the St. George (or St. Joris) civic guard of Haarlem, and today is considered one of the main attractions of the F ...

''. Traditionally flag bearers were bachelors, but he was not a bachelor for long, because he married Wilhelmina Coymans, the wealthy daughter of

Joseph Coymans Joseph Coymans (1591 – ca 1653), was a Dutch businessman in Haarlem, known best today for his portrait painted by Frans Hals, and its pendant, '' Portrait of Dorothea Berck''. The former resides at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, the l ...

in the same year. In 1647 he became mayor like his father before him. Among other offices, he served as head bailiff of

Kennemerland Kennemerland is a coastal region in the northwestern Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It includes the sand dunes north of the North Sea Canal, as well as the dunes of Zuid-Kennemerland National Park. History Kennemerland gets its ...

and board member of the

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...

and in 1657 he was colonel of the

schutterij Schutterij () refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces w ...

. He had nine children; his son Aarnoudt also became mayor. He died in Haarlem.

References

*Collections of Paintings in Haarlem: 1572-1745, by

Pieter Biesboer Pieter Biesboer (born 1944), is a Dutch art historian and prolific writer on 17th-century Dutch art. His specialty is art from Haarlem. Career Biesboer was a curator at Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof in Delft during the years 1973-1976. Bie ...

(editor Carol Togneri), Getty Trust Publications, Los Angeles, 2002 1612 births 1691 deaths Mayors of Haarlem People from Haarlem Frans Hals Frans Hals Museum {{Netherlands-mayor-stub