Remacle en Harmanus Serin. Nieuwe biografische gegevens betreffende vader en zoon Serin

• Autores: Jim van der Meer Mohr
• Localización: Oud Holland: quarterly for Dutch art history, ISSN 0030-672X, Vol. 125, Nº. 2-3, 2012, págs. 151-156
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Not much was known about the lives and work of the Serins, father and son. In fact, up until the early twentieth century they were both called Jan in many lexicons. All the information we have can really be traced back to the account given by their near contemporary, the biographer Johan van Gool (1685-1763), who discusses both of them in his Nieuwe Schouburgh. It is now clear to me from recent archival research that Van Gool was wrong about both the place and date of birth of the son, Harmanus Serin. He says that he was born in Ghent, but it was actually Antwerp. The Felix Archive there contains the 1677 record of his baptism, which also reveals that his father s forename was Remacle, as well as giving information about his mother. The date of Remacle's baptism could then be traced, and the archive also contained notes about his life. Earlier research in the Hague City Archives had already yielded the names of Harmanus's wife and children, and supplementary investigations have now established his date of death.