Adriaan van der Hoop

Portrait by Jan Adam Kruseman
The former mansion of Adriaan van der Hoop on Keizersgracht (the white one)

Adriaan van der Hoop (28 April 1778, in Amsterdam – 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. He also was an influential politician: a member of the city council, the States-Provincial in Haarlem and the Senate in The Hague. 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.[1] In this way Van der Hoop contributed substantially to the collection of the Rijksmuseum.

  1. ^ Knoef, J. (1949) De verzamelaar A. van der Hoop. In: Jaarboek Amstelodamum 42, p. 51 - 71.

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