Levinus Vincent

Levinus Vincent the Younger, (1658 in Amsterdam – 8 November 1727 in Haarlem) was a rich Dutch designer of patterns and merchant of luxurious textiles, such as damask, silk and brocade.

[1][2] Lieven's parents were Cornelis Joosten Heyns, a wine merchant from Harlingen and Neeltje IJsbrants from Petten, both Mennonites, who married in 1652.

[a] In 1657 his father was living in Sierra Leone and was involved in Danish Africa Company, together with Hendrik Carloff.

[12] Levinus owned a cabinet of curiosities, collected naturalia (with shells, insects, corals, birds, lizard and small mammals as wet preparations) and artificialia - (ethnography, paintings and drawings of flowers).

In 1712 Bernard Picart married his niece Anna Vincent; the wedding was in Haarlem, where Levinus had settled around 1705.