Portraits showing Maria Thins' family members

Ten portraits of the lineage of the aforenamed juffr. Tins all with bad black frame (tien conterfeytsels van de voorn. juffr. Tins geslacht alle met slechte swarte lijsten), In the Great Hall, Room I.

Also in the Great Hall were the portraits of Sr. Vermeer's late father and mother, twee conterfeitsels - van Sr. Vermeer zalr vader ende moeder. These we also know from an earlier document of 8 December 1623.

Note : These objects were part of the Vermeer-inventory as listed by the clerk working for Delft notary public J. van Veen. He made this list on February 29, 1676, in the Thins/Vermeer home located on Oude Langendijk on the corner of Molenpoort. The painter Johannes Vermeer had died there at the end of December 1675. His widow Catherina and their eleven children still lived there with her mother Maria Thins.

The transcription of the 1676 inventory, now in the Delft archives, is based upon its first full publication by A.J.J.M. van Peer, "Drie collecties...", Oud Holland, 1957, pp. 98-103. My additions and explanations are added in square brackets [__]. Dutch terms have been checked against the world's largest language dictionary, the Dictionary of the Dutch Language (Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal , or WNT), which was begun by De Vries en Te Winkel in 1882.

This page forms part of a large encyclopedic site on Vermeer and Delft. Research by Drs. Kees Kaldenbach (email). A full presentation is on view at johannesvermeer.info.

Launched December, 2002; Last update March 2, 2017.

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