Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen - Hinlopen's Collection of Paintings

Hinlopen's Collection of Paintings

After its completion, Rembrandt sold the painting Ahasuerus and Haman at the feast of Esther to Jan J. Hinlopen. It is based on thed Old Testament story. During a banquet the wife of the Persian King Ahasuerus, the Jewess 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.