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Van Eyck - Van Eick
A relation between Anna van Eyck, spouse of Gerrit de Hooch, and Maria van Eick, spouse of Hendrick Uylenburg isn't impossible. This would mean that Rembrandt wasn't only a part of Jacob's grandmother's family from his father's side, but also from his grandfather's from his father's side.
Direct indications:
- Melchior d'Hondecoeter signs the will of Gerrit de Hooch, husband of Anna van Eyck, in 1660. Visit also link 2
- Melchior d'Hondecoeter was Jan-Baptiste Weenix' pupil and nephew.
- Jan-Baptiste Weenix was Abraham Bloemaart's pupil.
- Wijbrand Simonsz van Geest was another pupil of Abraham Bloemaart.
- Wijbrand Simonsz van Geest was Hendrikien Uylenburg's husband.
- Hendrikien Uylenburg and Hendrik Uylenburg were distant cousins.
- Maria van Eick was Hendrik Uylenburg's spouse.
So, there already is a non-family based relation between Anna et Maria van Eyck.
Another non-family based relation:
- The couple Godijn-Netscher witness events in both families Uylenburg and De Hoogh.
Additonal indications:
- Anna van Eyck, spouse of Gerrit de Hooch, was a daughter of Hermanus van Eyck (owner of a pharmacy) and Maria Keun (marriage 1632 at The Hague), and had a sister Maria, born in 1634 at the Hague.
- Gerrit de Hooch, spouse of Anna van Eyck, was a painter, as well as a wine-seller. These two professions are also present in the family of Maria van Eick:
Maria's spouse, Hendrik Uylenburg, was a painter, while his wife's uncle, who went by the same name as he did, was a wine-seller.
- The father of Denys Godijn, Jeremias Godijn, was a wineseller. Denys Godijn was a pupil of Jan Lievens, who worked with Rembrandt.
- Maria van Eick's father in law was an artist at the Cracovie Court, the grandfather was a furniture-sculptor at the same court. Anna van Eyck's descendants were painters at the dutch and french courts.
- An article concerning the De Geest family (Gee) mentions that Julius de Geest, a distant cousin of Maria van Eick, worked in Caspar Netscher's style. Caspar Netscher and his wife witness le baptism of the child Margarita (1676) of Anna van Eyck.
- Around the family of Anna van Eyck, one finds a great number of well-known artists of the XVIth century, like De Baen, Netscher et Godijn. Gerrit de Hooch rented a house from Nicolaas Willingh, court-painter of Frédéric Wilhelm von Brandenbourg.
- The links of Anna van Eyck's brother, Hermanus van Eyck, to the dutch royal court.
- The husband of Maria van Eick was a seller of art et possessed a workshop in which a great number of well-known artists have worked, for instance Rembrandt, who also worked for several courts.
Thus, the two spouses Anna van Eyck and Maria van Eick belonged to the same circles of artists and painters around the different royal courts of Europe of the XVIth century.