Pieter van den Broecke

Pieter van den Broeke (* 1585, † 1640) was a Dutch military and merchant who lived in Haarlem and was a friend of the painter Frans Hals. 1633, he was portrayed by this.

Life

Pieter van den Broeke was a cloth merchant and traveled with fabrics from Holland to West Africa and Arabia, where he sold them. In 1614 he gave the then Governor of Aden two Haarlem Smallen, while it was silk fabrics from Haarlem, which were produced on very narrow looms. He then served 17 years to 1630 the Dutch military the East India Company in Java, in Arabia, Persia and India. In parting, he was awarded a gold chain worth 1,200 guilders.

Pieter van den Broeke is attributed to the closest circle of Frans Hals, as is apparent from the Taufpapieren of neck daughter Susanna. Van de Broeke was at this baptism of the first godfather, as second godfather of the Haarlem engraver Adrien Jacobsz Mathan has been identified. Frans Hals portrayed Pieter van den Broeke probably 1633 as chest portrait in elegant dress with the named golden necklace.

In 1634, he published an account of his life as a commercial traveler in Africa and the Orient. Here a stitch of the neck 's painting is shown on the cover, made ​​in 1633 by Adrien Jacobsz Mathan. Van der Broeke is shown in this picture into an oval with Coat of Arms and dolphin ornaments.

Writings

  • Pieter van den Broeke: Korte aenteyckeninghe historiael end Journaelsche, van al't geen merck waerdigh voorgevallen is, in de langhdurige Reysen, soo nae Cabo Verde, Angola [etc. ] as insonderheyd van Oost- India, Printer: Hans van Passchiers Wesbusch, Haerlem ( Haarlem ) 1634
  • Pieter van den Broeke, Klaas Ratelband: Reizen naar West Africa van Pieter van den Broeke, 1605-1614, Nijhoff, 's- Gravenhage 1950.
  • Pieter van den Broeke, Willem Philip Coolhaas: Pieter van den Broeke in Azië, Nijhoff, 's- Gravenhage 1962-1963.
  • Pieter van den Broeke: Station Azores, Boer, Bussum 1970
  • Pieter van den Broeke, JD La Fleur: Pieter Van Den Broeke 's journal of voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612), Hakluyt Society, London, 2000.
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