This patrician mansion, close to the Rembrandtplein, was built for Albert Geelvinck (1647-1693) and Sara Hinlopen (1660-1749), then in an attractive and new laid-out section of the city towards the Amstel.

[1] In the year 1687 the couple moved into this double wide house, with storage rooms in the cellar, under the attic and in the warehouse on Keizersgracht 633, now the entrance.

Sara Hinlopen came from a family of originally Flemish cloth merchants, private investors and in an early stage involved in the governing the city and the Dutch East India Company.

[5] The house, her stocks and bonds, her paintings and her books, including the cash money (ƒ 2,50), was divided into lots and went to Nicolaes Geelvinck and his three sisters.

The Blue room in a Louis XVI or neo-classical style has an ensemble of five wallpaper panels, painted around 1788 by Egbert van Drielst.

[9] There are six 17th-century paintings in this room: a Flamish fantasy landscape with tree, game and birds by Gillis d'Hondecoeter; also depicting Christ healing the blind.

[7] In the hall one can see a tapestry, made in Brussels around 1600, depicting Cyrus the Great and the rich Croesus, after his defeat and the revolt of the citizens.

[11] The Chinese Room has eight Rococo wallpaper panels on canvas with fantasy flowers and birds, vegetables and chinoiserie, made somewhere between the years 1765–1775.

The artist, working in the cuir de Cordoue manufacture of Cornelis 't Kindt [nl] in Brussels, perhaps used engravings by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, then famous for his Chinoiserie.