1735 | Hendrik van Slingelandt

After the death of Johan van Schuylenburch in 1735 the house was bought by Hendrik van Slingelandt for 40,000 guilders. The scion of a regent family in Dordrecht, Van Slingelandt served as alderman and burgomaster of The Hague.

In his time Van Slingelandt was a reputed collector of prints, drawings and documents. He installed a library on the first floor of the house which was decorated with allegorical representations of History and Geography, his two main fields of interest. The famous painter Aert Schouman, whom he had commissioned to make two bird paintings for the house, described Van Slingelandt as a ‘great art lover and connoisseur of the art of painting’.

Hendrik van Slingelandt died in 1759, and his wife two years later. Their two daughters inherited the house and continued to live there.