Pulchri Studio
Lange Voorhout 15 (originally from 1561, with later reconstruction)
The Mesdag brothers purchased this patrician home in 1898 as a club house for the Pulchri Studio Society for fine artists.
Accessible to the public
www.pulchri.nl
Around 1560, the Lange Voorhout area was still quite rural with a few farms and numerous craftsmen’s shops. A century later, it had had become the address of prominent politicians, senior officials and diplomats. Political adversaries sometimes lived side by side, such as Amelis van den Bouchorst at number 15 and Baron Philips van Boetzelaer at number 13. Amelis van den Bouchorst, Lord of Wimmenum, was very rich and owned great tracts of land and many farms along the dunes near Wassenaar, including Groot Haesebroek and Duinrell. His ancestors had owned a lot of property in the center of present-day The Hague, of which the ‘Boekhorststraat’ is a reminder.
Amelis van den Bouchorst was an important town administrator. He presided over the States General and was one of the architects of the Treaty of Münster, which brought an end to the Eighty Years’ War between the Netherlands and Spain. Then as now, politicians were able to turn with the wind; it was said of Van den Bouchorst that he just as easily changed his party as his wig.
The Mesdag brothers purchased this patrician home in 1898 as a club house for the Pulchri Studio Society for fine artists.
Accessible to the public
www.pulchri.nl
Around 1560, the Lange Voorhout area was still quite rural with a few farms and numerous craftsmen’s shops. A century later, it had had become the address of prominent politicians, senior officials and diplomats. Political adversaries sometimes lived side by side, such as Amelis van den Bouchorst at number 15 and Baron Philips van Boetzelaer at number 13. Amelis van den Bouchorst, Lord of Wimmenum, was very rich and owned great tracts of land and many farms along the dunes near Wassenaar, including Groot Haesebroek and Duinrell. His ancestors had owned a lot of property in the center of present-day The Hague, of which the ‘Boekhorststraat’ is a reminder.
Amelis van den Bouchorst was an important town administrator. He presided over the States General and was one of the architects of the Treaty of Münster, which brought an end to the Eighty Years’ War between the Netherlands and Spain. Then as now, politicians were able to turn with the wind; it was said of Van den Bouchorst that he just as easily changed his party as his wig.
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