1703 | Agneta de Graeff

Joan Pauw, the heir to the younger Reynier Pauw, sold the house in 1703 to Agneta de Graeff, of Amsterdam, for 25,000 guilders. Forty years old and very wealthy, De Graeff had probably bought the house to further the political ambitions of her fiancé, Jan Baptista de Hochepied, who was six years her junior. Following his marriage to Agneta, Hochepied did in fact acquire a position on the Chamber of Accounts in 1706. It is unknown whether The Hague was actually the couple’s permanent home. In any case, when Agneta sold the house in 1711, two years after Jan Baptista’s death, it was being leased to someone else.