1725 | Wall canvases

The house is known for the magnificent wall canvases in the left front room on the ground floor Cleves Room. They were painted by Dirk Dalens III in 1725 and depict the stories of Niobe, Narcissus, the Calydonian boar hunt and Mercury and Battus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Only the scene of the heron hunt is unconnected to the Metamorphoses.

Dirk Dalens III (1688-1753) was one of the best known landscape painters of his day. His Italian-style wall paintings can be found in Huis van Brienen in Amsterdam, at 39 Hooigracht in Leiden, De Strijdhoeff Castle in Udenhout, Keppel Castle in Laag Keppel, Stanstead Park in Sussex and even in the Polish town of Pless (Pszczyna).