Woonhuis Pieter van Winter (Jacob van Lennep wandelroute)

Little Jacob was a child at home with the wealthy merchant Pieter van Winter, his mother's stepfather, in the stately house Saxenburg - Keizersgracht 224. Jacob regarded him as his grandfather (grandmother Anna Louisa van der Poorten had already died for over a year. before he was born). Four more children lived there: three aunts and one of Jacob's uncle. Grandpa Pieter had a precious art collection in a gallery behind the house. Jacob saw Johannes Vermeer's Little Street and the Rembrandt portraits of Oopjen and Marten hanging here in his early youth. Source: Marita Mathijsen, 'Deftige circles. A walk through Jacob van Lennep's Amsterdam '. In: Ons Amsterdam 70 (2018) 7-8 (July-Aug), 40-45.