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Vermeer paintings within the rooms of
Magdalena and Jacob's residence. The inventory of 1683 stated the number of paintings for each applicable room, totaling 20 Vermeer works of art. The Frick Collection states, "According to this document, there were eleven Vermeers in the front room of Dissius's house on Delft's Markt (or "Market"); four in the back room; one in the kitchen, which apparently also served as a bedroom; two in a basement room; and two elsewhere in the residence. The subjects of the paintings in the Dissius home are not specified in the 1683 inventory."
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been because Jacob, of no means himself, married
Magdalena, who was an heiress. Jacob may have been given the printing press his father Abraham owned to use as a dowry, and Abraham was compensated by receiving half of his son's inheritance. Magdalena's maternal uncle Vincent de Knuijt and her paternal aunts Sara and Maria took Dissius to the High Court of Holland in 1684 and 1685 about the estate. The commissioner decided that the estate should be split between father and son, as was stipulated in Magdalena's testament.
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21 Vermeer paintings made between 1657 and 1673, two years before
Vermeer's death. One painting more than the inventory of Vermeer paintings inventoried in 1683, the difference could be that one Vermeer painting was misidentified to another artist. After the auction, Vermeer paintings were held privately for many years, sometimes centuries. When some of Vermeer's works resurfaced, they were incorrectly attributed to other Dutch artists, like
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Vermeer paintings that had been owned by Pieter Claesz van
Ruijven, Maria de Knuijt, their daughter Magdalena were first identified by subject matter at an auction in 1696, one year after the death of Jacob Dissius and two years after his father's death. The 16 May 1696 auction in Amsterdam offered
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The van
Ruijven estate was inherited by Jacob Dissius and his father Abraham Dissius, with each receiving their half in April 1683. As stipulated in Magdalena's will, Abraham was to inherit half of the estate if her mother had died before her and Magdalena and Jacob had no children. This may have
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Three documents are crucial in reconstructing the art collection of Jacob
Dissius: the inventory of his estate in April 1683, after the death of his parents-in-law and his wife; a document listing the division of this inheritance between Jacob and his father Abraham Dissius, which was united in
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Magdalena died on 16 June 1682 at the age of 27. She and her husband had no children. Dissius borrowed money from his father to pay for burial and related costs, including mourning clothes. An inventory was taken in 1683 of the paintings held by
Magdalena, but the list just stated the number of
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Abraham died and was buried on 12 March 1694 at the New Church. It seems that Jacob was his universal heir and would have inherited the other half of his wife's estate. Jacob Dissius died in October 1695 and was buried at
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Cloeting and the printer Abraham Dissius. He married Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven, born in 1655, on 14 April 1680, and was generally known after that by her husband's surname. Her parents were
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Magdalena's father and mother died in 1674 and 1681. Magdalena inherited the
Vermeer art collection, other works of art, a house in Voorstraet, the domain of Spalant, and interest-bearing obligations.
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in Amsterdam as the main patron due to her long-standing and supportive relationship with the artist. Dissius' father-in-law was one of the wealthier citizens of Delft. He was master of the
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Dissius acquired some distinction from his grandfather and namesake, the pastor of a Protestant church in Het Wout, Jacob Dissius. Dissius, a bookbinder, registered at the
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for the better part of the artist's career. In 2023, his mother-in-law Maria de Knuijt was identified by the curators of the 2023 exhibition of Vermeer's works at the
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