page_title: Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen
section_title: Hinlopen's collection of paintings
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen / Hinlopen's collection of paintings
context_page_description: Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen was a rich Dutch cloth merchant, an officer in the civic guard, a real estate developer in the Jordaan, alderman in the city council and a keen art collector. He would have been elected as a burgomaster, if he had not died at the age of forty, an age considered acceptable to be eligible. He was a prominent patron of the arts in his time, and there is some speculation on being an influential protector of Rembrandt and it is likely that he had good connections with Gabriel Metsu. Hinlopen, like his father-in-law, Joan Huydecoper I, is known in art history because of the poems by Jan Vos reciting the paintings in his house and members of the family. These paintings are spread all over the world, the poems nearly forgotten.
context_section_description: After its completion, Rembrandt sold the painting Ahasuerus and Haman at the feast of Esther to Jan J. Hinlopen. It is based on the Old Testament story. During a banquet the wife of the Persian King Ahasuerus, the Jew Esther accuses the king's favourite Haman of plotting to destroy her people. This painting may be one of the few paintings by Rembrandt whose provenance can be traced back to the year 1662. In that year Jan Vos published a poetry book in which there were sundry poems based on the paintings of Jan J. Hinlopen.
  In his collection were two paintings by Jan Lievens, The raising of Lazarus, now in Bristol, and Christ in the tomb. The painting by Bartholomeus van der Helst was inherited by his second wife Lucia Wijbrants. Furthermore, he had a painting of flowers by Willem van Aelst, and the painting Simon in the temple with Christ as a child by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. In his salon he showed Venus in a cloud full of Cupids by Rubens, which she inherited from her father Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen.
caption: Ahasuerus and Haman at the feast of Esther, by Rembrandt (1660). Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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