Pieter Rombouts
Dutch violin maker
Pieter Rombouts (1667 – 1729) was a Dutch violin maker. He also made violas da gamba and cellos.
Biography
Pieter Rombouts was baptized in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, on 25 November 1667 as the son of Jan Rombouts (a naval clerk) and Sibilla Barents. After Jan Rombouts' death, Barents remarried, to violin maker Hendrik Jacobs. Pieter Rombouts married Machdalena Kruyskerk from Kalverstraat in 1706, from the Botermarkt. He lived with his mother at the time; he stated that he was 32 years old.
He was buried on 27 September 1729, in the Zuiderkerk (his profession was listed as violin maker at the Bootermarkt). His widow moved to Binnenamstel and was one of the many rentiers Amsterdam had in 1742. She was among the richest 5% of the country's inhabitants. Her son, Wijnand, became a citizen of the city in 1740 and then announced that his father had died.
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