Abraham van der Hart [SEP] place of death
Abraham van der Hart
Abraham van der Hart (1747 or 1757, Amsterdam – 1820, Amsterdam) was an 18th-century architect from the Northern Netherlands.
Biography.
According to the RKD he learned architecture and draughtsmanship from his father, Jan van der Hart, and became an architect specialized in Neoclassicism, who built the Hodson house and Barnaart house in Haarlem. In Amsterdam, he built the theatre De Kleine Komedie and redesigned the Trippenhuis in 1815-1817 to house an art and print cabinet that later merged
museum was established with zoological specimens located there on display for the public, as a forerunner of the modern Naturalis in Leiden. Van Marum also kept a small garden for public viewing in the summer months, filled with special plants, located in the Bakkerstraat. The museum fell out of favor after Van Marum's death, and it was dissolved in 1866.
Hodshon House.
The house was built in 1794 by the architect Abraham van der Hart for Catharina Cornelia Hodshon, a wealthy heiress and regentess of the Wijnbergshofje.