The Gift

The Amsterdam Historical Museum and the Rijksmuseum are collaborating to make a joint presentation of the art collection of Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854). This year marks the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the bequest to Amsterdam of this banker-collector’s magnificent collection of paintings by world-famous masters such as Vermeer, Ruisdael, Rembrandt and Steen. Adriaan van der Hoop was a self-made man and millionaire who was at home in the highest circles of society – the Amsterdam Historical Museum will be bringing the man and his age to life by means of archive material, historical objects and a reconstruction of the salon of his own house with its seventeenth and nineteenth-century paintings. The Rijksmuseum is showing twenty seventeenth-century masterpieces from the bequest. Both presentations give a good picture of the far-reaching influence of this extraordinary collector on our present idea of Dutch painting.

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