Jacob Otten Husly

Jacob Otten Husly (16 November 1738 – 11 January 1796) was an 18th-century architect from the Northern Netherlands.

He made designs in the popular neoclassical style in the eighteenth century.

[1] He was the director of the drawing academy in Amsterdam called the Stadstekenacademie.

[2] In 1772–1776 he designed and built the City Hall, Weesp with his nephew Leendert Viervant the Younger.

[3] In 1787–1779 he won a prize for the new building called Felix Meritis in Amsterdam to house a new society of the arts and sciences there.

Detail of allegorical portrait of Husly by Reinier Vinkeles in 1765