Samuel Blommaert was a Flemish-Dutch merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642. In the latter period, he was a paid commissioner of Sweden in
Samuel Blommaert (1647)
Portrait of Gerard Reynst, Blommaert's father-in-law
In 1615 Gerrit Reynst became the owner of an empty lot, now Prinsengracht 2; his heirs, two daughters who married Samuel Blommaert and Isaac Coymans sold the lots in 1617, 1618, and 1622.