Isaac Koedijck (c1617 - 1668). Isaac Koedijck was a Dutch painter and merchant. He mainly produced genre paintings . On May 18, 1641, Koedijck married the wid .w Sophia de Solemne, a sister of David de Solemne, from Arnhem. He had been quartermaster of Count Ernst of Nassau and then left for the Indies as a soldier. The young couple went to live on the Looiersgracht in Amsterdam. However, his business as a merchant did not go so well. In 1644 he got into trouble when someone could not pay back a loan. He was also unable to repay his own loan. All his possessions were inventoried by a notary in November 1644, but he eventually managed to reach an arrangement with his creditor. In 1651 the couple found themselves in Batavia. Here he was hired by the VOC as a merchant and agent, to become a court painter for the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in Agra and at the same time keep the Company informed of relevant matters going on at court. However, upon arrival in Suratte, it became apparent that this appointment would not go ahead. He was then appointed secunde under Hubert Hugo in Ahmedabad, not far from Suratte, where he went in January 1652. When Hugo repatriated the following year, he became chief. When the director of Suratte, Gerard Pelgrim, left, he became second under the new director Hendrik van Gent in 1655. He was also promoted to chief merchant. In Suratte, Sophia's cousin Esther, David de Solemne's daughter, married the young merchant Dirck van Adrichem. Although the Council of the Indies in Batavia had approved Koedijck's promotion, the Heren XVII did not agree, as he had not been able to pay his creditors in Amsterdam and had not been educated and stylized in negotiation but in painting. They therefore ordered Koedijck to be dismissed in April 1657 and to give him the opportunity, if he so wished, to work as a free citizen and painter in Batavia. While the letter was still in transit, Hendrik van Gent died in July, and Koedijck became provisional director. In November 1658 he had to transfer the position to Leonard Winninxand he left for Batavia, where he worked for a while as secretary of the Council of the Indies. At the beginning of 1659 he left for Holland as commander of the return fleet. After arriving, Koedijck and his family lived in Haarlem and he worked as a jeweler and painter in Amsterdam. In his style he was a follower of Gerard Dou. In 1665, together with another jeweler and his son-in-law Justinus Weyns, who had been chief of the VOC branch in Mocha, he appeared in Isfahan, where they had traveled overland. The local VOC factory reported this to Batavia, but what Koedijck did in Isfahan is not known. Sophia died in Haarlem on February 4, 1667. Koedijck died, probably in Amsterdam, shortly before March 17, 1668, the date on which his will was read.