Discover art dealer (person), art collector, art agent Pieter Spiering van Silvercroon

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This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Spierinckx, Pieter (I)
Spiering Silvercrona, Pieter
Spierinck, Peter
Spiering Silvercron, Pieter
Spiring, Pieter
Spiering, Pieter (1595-1652)
Spiring Silfvercrona, Peter
ennobled in Sweden on 5 October 1636 under the name Silfvercrona

Qualifications: art dealer (person), art collector, art agent, diplomat, chamberlain, carpet manufacturer, tapestry weaver, government employee
Spiering was a Swedish agent since 1634. He bought art for Queen Christina of Sweden in Holland. He sent paintings by Gerard Dou to Christina, but she sent back these paintings because she did not like them. Spiering was patron of Gerard Dou and owned works by him. In 1636, Spiering settled in The Hague and informed Count Oxenstierna.

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school), Swedish

Born: Delft (city) 1594/1596
His birth date is not known, but since his elder brother Aert was born in 1593 and his sister Catharina on 21 January 1595, 1594/96 is the likeliest span (Veldman 2015-2016).

Deceased: London (England) 1652-02-19
died during a diplomatic mission (Nordisk familjebok 1917)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Frans Aertsz. Spierincx or François Spiering (1551-1630) and Oncommera Menninxdr Duyst van Voorhout (died 1653); married in Delft on 13 April 1636 and to Johanna Dorothea Doré (died 1653), widow of Jan de Bommert. Spiering adopted the 5 daughters and son she had from her previous marriage (Veldman 2015-2016).

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

advisor of Axel Oxenstierna

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Active in

Delft (stad)
München 1613 - 1614
active in the Munich tapestry factory (Thieme/Becker 1937)
Danzig (hist.) 1614 - 1649
seems to have had a tapestry factory in Danzig, with which he regularly had disputes (Thieme/Becker 1937)
Stockholm (stad) 1618 - 1619
went together with his brother Isaac to the Swedish court for the order of 27 tapestries for the king's wedding in 1620 (Veldman 2015-2016, p. 228)
Delft (stad) 1622 - 1626
active for Karel van Mander II in Delft in 1622/23
Stockholm (stad) 1626
in Swedish service as surveyor of the custom offices along the Baltic coast (Jacobsson 2021, 198-199)
Amsterdam (stad) 1636
marriage
Stockholm (stad) 1636-06
Veldman 2015-2016, p. 229
Den Haag (stad) 1636 - 1652
resided mostly in The Hague
Rijswijk (plaats, Zuid-Holland) 1637 - 1652
had a house called Vijversteyn in Rijswijk (also called the Sp(i)ring House)
Norsholm 1636 - 1651
received Norsholms herrgård when he was ennobled

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Literature

Sandrart/Peltzer 1675/1925
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 278, 279; vol. 2 (1719), p. 3
Granberg 1895 , 'Gerrard Dous förnämsta arbeteb - pä Stockholms slott', p. 12-15
Martin 1901 , p. 41, 71, 80, 84
Wrangel 1901 , p. 4, 40, 43, 102, 119, 156, 205, 211, 215, 223, 227, 242, 335
Granberg 1929-1931 , vol. 1 (1929), p. 62, 69
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 31 (1937) (under: Frans Spierincx)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 486, 490
Plomp 2001 (monograph) , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

J. Römelingh, Een rondgang langs Zweedse archieven. Een onderzoek naar archivalia inzake de betrekkingen tussen Nederland en Zweden 1520-1920 (RGP kleine serie 59), 's-Gravenhage 1986, passim
B. Noldus, 'An ’Unvergleichbarer Liebhaber, Pieter Spierinck, the art-dealing diplomat', Scandinavian Journal of History 31(2006), no. 2, p. 173-185
B. Noldus, 'Loyalty and Betrayal. Artist-agents Michel le Blon and Pieter Isaacz, and Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna', in: H. Cools, M. Keblusek and B. Noldus (eds), Your Humble Servant. Agents in Early Modern Europe, Hilversum 2006, p. 51-64
B. Noldus, 'A spider in its web: agent and artist Michel le Blon and his Northern European network', in: M. Keblusek en B. Noldus, Double Agents: Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe, Leiden 2011, p. 161-191
I.M. Veldman, 'Portrait of an art collector: Pieter Spiering van Silvercroon', Simiolus 38 (2015-2016), p. 228-249
H. Jacobsson, 'Dutch experts in the early modern Swedish state. Employment strategies and knowledge building 1560-1670', Doctoral Thesis in History, Stockholm University, 2021, p. 196-201

Project: Gerson Digital : Germany
Gerson Digital : Sweden

External links: Nordisk familjebok 1917
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Creation date: 2013-03-19; Last modified date: 2023-02-24

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