Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen
The Museum Geelvinck - Hinlopen Huis is situated in Amsterdam in an old mansion. It is one of a number of magnificent Baroque town houses on the Herengracht. In 1980 it was bought privately, restored since then. The museum organizes small exhibitions and concerts, sometimes as a Broadwood is on original instruments played. The house is named after the two Amsterdam regent families and Geelvinck Hinlopen.
Location
The museum is located in the Canal Belt, three parallel canals, which were excavated in the 17th century in the water-rich marsh and systematically expanded. The house is situated at the eastern end of the Golden Curve ( " Golden Bow "), a bend in the Herengracht, and close to the Rembrandtplein and Amstel. The museum is open from Friday to Monday and is especially appreciated for its quiet location, valuable tapestry, tapestries and paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters.
The house
The Geelvinck - Hinlopen house is at Herengracht 518, where developed the residences of the upper class, mayors, businessmen and company directors. How many houses of this canal, it occupies two plots. The left half had a commercial function, right there was the living quarters.
Construction began soon after the purchase of two properties in 1683; the house was completed and occupied in 1687. In the same year the property was expanded by the purchase of a rearwardly adjacent parcel to the Keizersgracht, the parallel canal. This allowed the garden to be enlarged and room for a carriage house, a stable and storage spaces are created.
Albert Geelvinck and Sara Hinlopen
Builders were the jurist Albert Geelvinck (1647-1693) and his wife Sara Hinlopen (1660-1749), who both came from wealthy merchant families and 1680 were married. Geelvincks father and grandfather Cornelis Cornelisz January. Geelvinck were Mayor, as Hinlopens grandfather and uncle. Her father was a cloth merchant, alderman and art collector; he let himself and his family in 1663 painting by Gabriel Metsu. The painting is located since 1834 in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, his Rembrandt was sold in 1763 by Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky to Catherine the Great. It is now seen in the Pushkin Museum.
Both families and Geelvinck Hinlopen had become rich through trade with the East and West Indies. Also Geelvinck earned as a Director of the Company on Surinam sugar and slave trade. The husband died in 1693 at the age of only 48 years. Sara married his nephew Jacob Bicker, also a magistrate. He died in 1713, also childless. The rest of her life Sara in her luxurious house with three domestics Liesbeth, Hermannus and Geesje. She died, almost blind, age 89, and was buried in the Oude Kerk. She left her fortune and the House of Geelvinck family.
The present museum
The house is no longer entirely in original condition. So has disappeared from the façade, the Attica ( the essay ). In the last century, during the storm disaster in 1953, the garden was largely destroyed. The landscape architect Robert Broekema designed it again twenty years ago. The four style rooms have been refurbished, the treasures, which at that time were in the house, are incomplete. The Red Room is decorated in Louis XV style. The characteristics of this style are asymmetry, rocaille, wavy outlines and leaves. In the red room hanging from left to right the following paintings:
- Gillis Claesz. Hondecoeter de - Landscape with representation of Christ, who heals the blind.
- Pieter de Ring - Sumptuous Still Life with Nautilus
- Hans Goderis - Two warships waiting in front of Pampus
- Anthonie van Stralen - Winter Landscape
- Daniel Seghers - Still Life with Flowers
The blue room is decorated in the Louis XVI style. Worth mentioning are the five panels of Egbert van Drielst. The hand-painted wallpaper from 1788, the rooms adorned in the last century in New York and Miami, but now are back in Amsterdam.
The Chinese Room has eight panels with hand- painted wallpaper on oilcloth, made in Brussels, in the manufactory of Cornelis ' t Kint. Influences from Augsburg, and Chinoiserieen by Jean -Baptiste Pillement can be seen.
The fireplace in the library shows a relief of a herring boat. It is the coat of arms Buisman family, the current owners of the house. The restored ceiling has an interesting history and is reminiscent of Robert Adam, a Scottish architect and father of British classicism.
The tapestry in the hall is a copy of a wallpaper in the royal palace in Madrid. The draft (box) came from Michiel Coxcie, a Flemish painter of the 16th century who worked in Brussels, Mechelen and Antwerp. The story depicted is that of Herodotus, who reported from the King Croesus to Cyrus II Council.