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Adriaan van der Hoop (28 April 1778, in
Amsterdam
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– 17 March 1854, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch banker and in the first half of the 19th century one of the richest men in the
Netherlands
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. He also was an influential politician: a member of the
city council
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, the
States-Provincial in
Haarlem
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and the
Senate
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in
The Hague
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. In his later years he became an important art and plant collector. On his death he left 250 paintings to the city of Amsterdam, who could barely pay the
inheritance tax
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. In this way Van der Hoop contributed substantially to the collection of the
Rijksmuseum
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.
Life
Adriaan van der Hoop was the son of
Joan Cornelis van der Hoop, secretary of the
Sociëteit van Suriname
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, prosecutor for the
Admiralty of Amsterdam
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and Minister of the Navy. Adriaan studied law in
Groningen
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and
Kiel
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, when it was still a Danish city. (N.B. Holland was occupied by the French army between 1795 – 1813). With his Danish passport he traveled through Germany and England. In 1811, he was hired by the firm
Hope & Co., for years an important lender to the Russian state.
Back in Holland in 1814 Adriaan van der Hoop was involved in the setting up of the Constitution and accompanied emperor
Alexander I of Russia
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The son of ...
on his visit to Holland. In 1815, he was appointed by
Alexander Baring to lead the firm Hope & Co. A debt of 100,000 guilder owed by his brother-in-law Jan Clifford led in 1819 to a drawn-out court case between the two men. The day after the verdict, four years later, Clifford committed suicide with a pistol.
Adriaan raised rare plants on his country estate ''Spaarnberg'', near
Santpoort
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. There he grew 120 kinds of South African
Erica
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; he had two blossoming
agave
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s and ten kinds of
orchid
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s. The country house was designed by
Jan David Zocher
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, who on van der Hoop's request also designed a new stock exchange in Amsterdam.
Adriaan owned racehorses and in 1832 he started to collect art objects on a large scale. Adriaan bought works by contemporary painters, including
Jan Adam Kruseman
Jan Adam Kruseman (12 February 1804, Haarlem - 17 March 1862, Haarlem) was a Dutch painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also did landscapes and genre scenes.
Biography
He was born to a prominent family that would produce sever ...
,
Johannes Christianus Schotel
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and
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (October 11, 1803 – April 5, 1862) was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer.
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Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was born on 11 October 1803, in Middelburg, Zeeland. He was the first and e ...
. His collection of paintings - which he had partly inherited, included items by
Vermeer
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,
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,
Rembrandt
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,
Jan Steen
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Life ...
and
Adriaen van der Werff
Adriaen van der Werff (21 January 1659 – 12 November 1722) was a Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant.
Life
At the ag ...
, and could be visited by appointment at his house on Keizersgracht 444. He had bought this house in 1822. The building on the Keizersgracht had been the offices of his employer
Hope & Co., and had previously been inhabited by Hope & Co. family members
Thomas Hope, his brother Adrian Hope, his cousin
Henry Hope
Henry Hope (1735–1811) was an Amsterdam merchant banker born in Braintree, Massachusetts. He emigrated to the Netherlands to join the family business Hope & Co. at a young age. From 1779, Henry became the manager of Hope & Co. and he participa ...
(who moved next door to 448), and later Thomas' son
Jan Hope
John Hope (14 February 1737 – 20 April 1784), also known as Jan Hope, was a wealthy Dutch banker, participating in Hope & Co., a member of the city council and an art collector. In 1770 he was appointed as manager of the Dutch East India Co ...
.
Musée Van der Hoop
After his death, the Van der Hoop Museum was opened in his former home on the Keizersgracht and various catalogs were produced 1858-1872 in Dutch and French.
Musée Van der Hoop Description des Tableaux
/ref> In 1885 the collection was merged with the newly built Rijksmuseum.
Sources
External links
The Gift
Craft and commerce
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1778 births
1854 deaths
Dutch bankers
Municipal councillors of Amsterdam
Art collectors from Amsterdam
Businesspeople from Amsterdam