Willem Warmont
Willem Warmont, or Warmondt (1583 – 8 May 1649), was a Dutch Golden Age brewer and mayor of Haarlem.
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Biography
He was born in Amsterdam as the son of the Amsterdam merchant Jacob Warmont and Ytgen Arentsdr Bouwer but moved to Haarlem where he became a brewer in Het Gecroonde Ancker. He was a judge, magistrate and mayor of Haarlem. He was a lieutenant of the St. Adrian militia from 1618-1621, captain there from 1624-1627 and 1636-1639, and colonel from 1642-1645. He married in Amsterdam 11 November 1607 to Catharina van Rhijn, daughter of Jacob Egbertsz and Maria Claesdr. Gaeff.
Willem Warmont was portrayed by Frans Hals twice; once in his schutterstuk called The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627, and again in an oval portrait around 1630.[1][2]
He died in Haarlem.[1]
References
- Willem Warmont in the oval portrait record in the RKD
- Willem Warmont in the RKD record for the group portrait
- Willem Warmont in De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 60, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives