David van der Plas - Portrait of Adriaan Dortsman

Adriaan Dortsman (1635,

Vlissingen Vlissingen (; ) is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the island of Walcheren. With its strategic location between the Scheldt river and the North Sea, Vlissingen has been an importan ...

– 1682,

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), was a

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architect of Amsterdam.

Biography

According to the RKD he moved to Amsterdam in 1667 and is known for drawings and architectural designs.Adriaan Dortsman
in the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: ), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center in the world. The center specializes in document ...

He designed the

Ronde Lutherse Kerk (Amsterdam) The ('Round Lutheran Church') or ('Cupola Church') is a former Lutheran church in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on the Singel (Amsterdam), Singel canal. The church can be easily seen from the Singel, identified by its copper dome. History The churc ...

, (part of) the Oosterkerk, the Wallonian orphanage (today Maison Descartes), the "Van Raey" houses for the wealthy grain and weapons merchant Jeremias van Raey on the

Keizersgracht The Keizersgracht (; "Emperor's canal") is a canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is the second of the three main Amsterdam canals that together form the Grachtengordel, or canal belt, and lies between the inner Herengracht and outer Prinseng ...

(today one half of this complex is home to the

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Amstel The Amstel () is a river in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It flows from the Aarkanaal and Drecht in Nieuwveen northwards, passing Uithoorn, Amstelveen, and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, to the IJ in Amsterdam, to which the rive ...

216 (for the soap manufacturer Gijsbert Dommer, which was later purchased by mayor

Coenraad van Beuningen Coenraad van Beuningen (1622 – 26 October 1693) was the Dutch Republic's most experienced diplomat, burgomaster of Amsterdam in 1669, 1672, 1680, 1681, 1683 and 1684, and from 1681 a Dutch East India Company director. He probably was bipolar, ...

), and Gunterstein. In 1676 he designed a new set of fortifications for

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, for

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. Dortsman became quite wealthy and left the bulk of his estate to his housekeeper

Cornelia van der Gon Cornelia van der Gon (1644 – 1701) was an owner of a show-dollhouse that attracted a following in Amsterdam in the 17th century. She was born in Haarlem as the daughter of the kastelein of the Stadsdoelen (today the Stadsbibliotheek Haarle ...

, who married his assistant, the painter

David van der Plas David van der Plas (11 December 1647 – 18 May 1704), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter. Biography David van der Plas became famous as a portrait painter, and his most illustrious patron was Cornelis Tromp.

after he died. Cornelia van der Gon was a dollhouse decorator, and both Dortsman and Van der Plas assisted her. The two dollhouses of Cornelia van der Gon later came into the hands of

Sara Rothé Sara Rothé (1699–1751) was an 18th-century art collector from the Dutch Republic, known today as the former owner of two dollhouses now on display in the Frans Hals Museum and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Biography In the early 18th century, ...

, and parts of the original dollhouses, including interior designs by Dortsman and paintings by Van der Plas can still be seen.Cornelia van der Gon
on ING website with photo of Dortsman dollhouse room design One dollhouse is in the

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, and the other dollhouse is in the

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...

. File:Herengracht 539 Amsterdam 01.jpg,

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539, Amsterdam File:Ronde Lutherse Kerk 2482.jpg, Ronde Lutherse Kerk File:Keizersgracht 672-674.JPG, Museum Van Loon File:Walenweeshuis Maison Descartes Amsterdam 2007.JPG,

Vijzelgracht The Vijzelgracht is a street and former canal in Amsterdam. The Vijzelgracht is adjacent to the Grachtengordel (canal belt) and is an extension of one of the most important city radii for public transport and normal traffic. This through route ...

2A, Maison Descartes File:Amsterdam - Oosterkerk Wittenburg.JPG, Oosterkerk, on the

Nieuwe Vaart The Nieuwe Vaart or Nieuwevaart is a 17th-century canal in Amsterdam that runs from the center to Amsterdam-Oost (Amsterdam East). Kromhout Museum is located on the Nieuwe Vaart. On this site, the Westkap is still used as a shipyard, but the Oost ...

File:Gunterstein (Zandpad, Breukelen).jpg, Gunterstein File:Naardenmap.jpg, New fortifications for the city of

(today mostly intact)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dortsman, Adriaan 1635 births 1682 deaths Dutch Golden Age architects People from Vlissingen Dutch Baroque architects