1786 | Willem August Sirtema van Grovestins

Sirtema van Grovestins rented the house from the Bentinck family in 1786, but spent little time on Korte Vijverberg. In 1789, he was sent by the Prince of Orange and the States General to look into the possibility of reorganising the Dutch administration in the Dutch colony of Demerary (in present-day Guyana). His wife Jacoba Bouwens died in The Hague in 1793.

In 1796 the house was leased to Abraham Gijsbertus Verster, who had become a member of the National Assembly shortly before that time. Verster, who was a tapestry dealer from Amsterdam, did not stay in politics long. A year later he left The Hague.