Lucia Wijbrants

[1] After 1585 when Antwerp was occupied by the Spanish army, the family moved to Amsterdam and lived in a house in the Warmoesstraat, then a fashionable shopping street.

On December 9, 1664 she gave notice to her marriage with Jan J. Hinlopen; she was accompanied by her mother, Machteld Pater.

In 1666 Hinlopen commissioned a painting from Bartholomeus van der Helst of the 27-year-old Lucia, himself, and three hunting dogs, but showing his deceased first wife and children in the background.

This painting by the son of Bartholomeus van der Helst is now in the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest).

It could be one of the two silver chandeliers given by Joan Huydecoper II and his wife to the parents of Sara Hinlopen on September 10, 1660, two months after her birth.

[7] Within a few years it became clear she did not get along with Johanna Maria and Sara Hinlopen, two rich, self-aware, or maybe jaded orphans.

[8] Lucia moved in with her mother at Herengracht and remarried Johan van Nellesteyn (1617–1677) on February 29, 1672 in Sloten.

A portrait of Lucia Wijbrants painted by Gabriël Metsu in 1667
Jan J. Hinlopen in 1665, with his second wife Lucia Wijbrants. Painting by Bartholomeus van der Helst , now in a private collection.
Keizersgracht 213 in the middle, a house known as Belief , not existing anymore. The neighboring houses were called Hope and Love . Engraving around 1770 by Caspar Philips