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Saskia was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the youngest of the eight children of Sjoukje Ozinga and Rombertus van Uylenburgh, a top lawyer, a town burgomaster, and one of the founders of the University of Franeker. Saskia (called Saske in Friesland) was orphaned by age 12, as her mother died in 1619 and her father five years later. Supposedly she met Rembrandt at the home of her first cousin, Hendrick van Uylenburgh, a painter and art dealer who had emigrated from Friesland to Kraków in Poland with his parents but decided in 1625 to move to the Dutch Republic, where there was growing tolerance after the death of Maurice of Orange.
Saskia was raised by her sister Hiskje and her husband, Gerard van Loo, a lawyer and secretary in the grietenij Het Bildt. For a while she lived in Franeker when her sister Antje was ill. After Antje's burial, Saskia assisted her brother-in-law, the Polish theology professor Johannes Maccovius, until she married Rembrandt in 1634.[2]
In 1631 and in the company of the Mennonite painters Govert Flinck and Jacob Backer,[3] Saskia travelled to Amsterdam. There she met Rembrandt, who produced paintings and portraits for Uylenburgh's Amsterdam clients.[4][5] In turn Rembrandt travelled to Leeuwarden, where he was received by the painter Wybrand de Geest, who had married Saskia's niece.
Saskia and Rembrandt were engaged on 5 June 1633,[6] and a year later Rembrandt asked permission to marry in Sint Annaparochie. He showed his mother's written consent to the schepen. On 2 July 1634 the couple married. The preacher was Saskia's cousin, but evidently none of Rembrandt's family attended the marriage. That Saskia fell in love with an artist who was socially no match for the daughter of a patrician and that she pressed for a speedy betrothal against all conventions certainly shows that she was a very strong and independent character.[7] In 1635 the couple moved to one of the most desirable addresses in Amsterdam, the Nieuwe Doelenstraat, with prominent neighbors and a view of the river Amstel.
Rembrandt gained financial success through his artwork, and decided in 1639 to buy a house in the Jodenbreestraat, next to the place where he worked. A year before, by 16 July 1638, Saskia's Friesian relatives complained that Saskia was spoiling her inheritance. Rembrandt asked his brother-in-law Ulricus van Uylenburgh, also a lawyer, to help them out, confirming he was successful and able to pay for the house.[8]
Three of their children died shortly after birth and were buried in the nearby Zuiderkerk. The sole survivor was Titus, who was named after his mother's sister Titia (Tietje) van Uylenburgh. Saskia died the year after he was born, in Amsterdam, aged 29, probably from tuberculosis. She was buried in the Oude Kerk.[9] For ten years Rembrandt focused on drawings and etchings.
Saskia allowed Rembrandt to use their son's inheritance as long as he did not remarry. If Titus died without issue, Rembrandt would be the heir of the moveable property.[10] Rembrandt hired Geertje Dircx as a wetnurse; in 1649 she expected him to marry her. The next year Rembrandt had her locked up in a house of correction when Hendrickje Stoffels became his new housekeeper and mistress. In 1662 Rembrandt, having been in financial trouble for several years, sold Saskia's grave. Hendrickje died the following year.
Asteroid 461 Saskia is named in her honour.[11]
Hi_DTB TrouwenType of registration_ DTB Wedding registration (Deed) date_ 22-06-1634Place_ St. AnnaparochieType of deed_ confirmation of marriageGros first child was born in 1607 = Estimating he was married in 1606 om Rembrandt Hermens van Rhijn living in Amsterdam Bride Saskia van Ulenborgh living in Franker[5]
Source: Tietjerksteradeel populationType of registration: Tietjerksteradeel population registrations Particularities: Saskia (Sascke) van Ulenburch; tr. St. Anna Parish 22 June 1634 Rembrandt van Rijn
Mention Saskia (Sascke) van Ulenburch Miscellaneous: Baptized Leeuwarden Aug 2, 1612
Father Rombartus Ulenburg Mother Siuckien Ulckesdr AEssinga
Source: Tietjerksteradeel mortgage booksType of registration: Tietjerksteradeel mortgage books deed(Deed) date: 23-06-1637
Particularities:
Deed date = date of entering into obligation.
session; dr. Ulricus Ulenburg, co-lawyer for the Court of Friesland, cedes to Gerryt Loo, secretary of the Bildt, the monster commissioner François Côpal and Rembrant van Rhijn, his brothers-in-law, as husbands and guardians of his sisters, as well as Jeltie Ulenburg, and professor Joannes Maccovius in Franeker, the latter as usufructuary of the estate ("usufructuarus haeres") of the late Anne Ulenburg, the share of the purchase price, being 1/8, which has competed him for this from Maeycke Loo, as mother of her children at wl. Dr. Adigerus Adius, and Dirck Alberts, bookseller in Leeuwarden, as purchasers of certain estates in Tietjerk and Nijemirdum. Idzart Ulenburg, lieutenant under captain jr. Hessel van Aylva cedes to his brother-in-law Dr. Gerardus Loo, for himself and as husband and guardian of Hiske Ulenburg, his share in the purchase price of the aforementioned two sittings, as well as of the sitting in Rijperkerk, called " Ulenburgs state", bought by Miss. His van Eminga widow Sytsma and dr. Albertus Loo cum uxore. Ulricus Ulenburg makes the reservation: "my right neffens seeckere two hundred caroli gls., soo me uyt my w. parents inheritance nor sijn competing ende uyt pros. Jeltie must become aenpart, with d'accessorien of that". This cession was read by a messenger of the Court of Friesland, but rejected by the opposing party "because of the many expenses that had been incurred on those same pennies before this". Registered 26 June 1637 at the request of Gerryt Loo
Mention Adigerus Adius Mention John Maccovius Mention Jeltie Ulenburg Mention Dick Alberts Mention Gerard Loo Mention Albert Loo Mention Maeycke Loo Mention His from Eminga Mention Idzart Ulenburg Mention Anne Ulenburg Mention Hiske Ulenburg Mention François Copal Mention Ulricus Ulenburg Mention Sytsma Mention Gerry Loo Mention Hessel of Aylva Mention Rembrandt van Rhijn
Magdalena van Loo; understand A'dam (WK) 21 Oct. 1669, tr. Amsterdam (NK) 28 Feb. 1668 Titus van Rijn (son v Rembrandt), d. 1668; Yearb. CBG 1981 137 et al.
Mention Magdalena van Loo Miscellaneous: Baptized Amsterdam (NK) 21 May 1641
Father Jan van Loo Mother Annetien Huybrechtsdr
Rembrandt van Rijn; world-renowned painter, tr. 1. St. Annaparochie June 22, 1634 Saskia van Ulenburgh; Yearb. CBG 137 et seq.; ki.: Titus, d. Amsterdam 22 Sept. 1641, tr. Magdalena van Loo
Mention Rembrandt van Rijn (Rhine)
Particularities: Titus van Rijn; Baptistized in Amsterdam Western. Sept 7 1668, tr. ald. NK 28 Feb. 1668 Magdalena van Loo; Yearb. CBG 1981 137 et seq.; ki.: Titia, bapt. Amsterdam 22 March 1669, died childless 1725, married. 1686 François van Bijler (1668-1728, son v François v B. and Sara van Loo)
Mention Titus van Rhine Miscellaneous: Baptized Amsterdam 22 Sept. 1641
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