Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1906 — Death of a Noble Relative of the Van Rensselaers. [ARTICLE]

Death of a Noble Relative of the Van Rensselaers.

Van Rensselaer Bow 4 er; At her residence, No. 91 Helmerstraat, Amsterdam, Holland, on Tuesday, March 13, 1906, Madame Marie Magdalene Van Rensselaer- Bowier, born Juffrouw van Beresteyn of Chateau Maurick, Bois-le-Due, Brabant, and widow of Vice Admit al Jonkheer Marten Wilhelmus van Rensselaer-Bowier, of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Van Rensselaeb-Bowieb. News by cable has just been received of the sudden death in Amsterdam, Tuesday morning March thirteenth, of the widow of Vice Admiral Jonkheer Marten Wilhelmm Van Rensselaer Bowier of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Madame Van Rensselaer-Bowier was a woman of high intelligence, varied culture and great social charm. Her home in Amsterdam was the center of a delightful coterie of accomplished men and women. She spent her summers at Hilversum in the neighborhood of the first Patroon Van Rensselaer’s country estate of Crailo. , She visited America about three years ago and met many members of the American Van Rensselaer family. Her husband was the son of Juffrouw Sarah Van Rensselaer the last of the name in Holland who married Jonxheer Jan van Bowier. Their son received Irom the late King of Holland the right to bear the name and arms of his mother, together with his own as Van Rens-selaer-Bowier and to transmit the same to his descendants. Madame Van Rensselaer-Bowier was born Juffrouw Marie Magdalene van Beresteyn of Chateau Maurick of Bois le Due, Brabant . On her father’s death the family treasures weie distributed and the splendid portraits of her ancestors painted by Rembrandt in his prime were sold for a large sum and passed finally into the possession of Mr. Havemeyer, in whose gallery they now are. Many will remember the famous Van Beresteyn Rembrandts on exhibition in_ the Metropolitan Museum of Art some sixteen years ago. In the Salle de Franz Hale in the Louvre, there are three pictures by this great artist, of Ludovicos van Beresteyn, his wife and childien, all members of the Chateau Maurick family.

A sitter of Madam van Bowier is Barouess Beu tin ch, of that Holland family aho sent a young Page to England in the train of Wm. 111. Pi iuce of Orange, to obtain finally the Dukedum of Portlaud and hand down the name of Bentiuck in England. Madame Van Rensselaer-Bowier leaves two sous: Jonkheeren Hugo J. J. and Marteu W. M, The eldest is married and connected with the Kansas City Northern Railway, at Kansas City, Mo. The latter is associated with the Netherlands East Indian Company, Amsterdam, Madame Van Rensselaer-Bowier and her youngest son were the guests while in America of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Hartwell Strong, of New Brunswick, N. J. Mrs. Strung, as a Van Rensselaer, daughter of the founder of this city, had visited her Holland relatives several timesand was on terms of great friendship with them.