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'''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.<ref name="auto">Colenbrander, S. (2010). Zolang de weefkunst bloeit : zijdeweverijen in Amsterdam en Haarlem, 1585-1750.[https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/995694/74868_thesis.pdf]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/redressing-the-balance-levinus-vincents-wonder-theatre-of-nature|title = Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent's Wonder Theatre of Nature}}</ref>
==Biography== Lieven's parents were Cornelis Joosten Heyns, a wine merchant from Harlingen and Neeltje IJsbrants from Petten, both Mennonites, who married in 1652.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/details/5001/path/2.2.22|title=Inventarissen|website=archief.amsterdam}}</ref> His mother was the widow of Vincent Pieters who lived at Rokin.{{Efn|Levinus had two half brothers, Levinus Vincent the Elder (1638-1688) who married Hester Riemer and Ysbrand Vincent (1641-1718) who married Anna Yver.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sites.google.com/site/nederlandsetaalwetenschappen/dr-vincent-heinsius | title=Heinsius Columns - Dr. Vincent Heinsius }}</ref> Since 1660 they collaborated in producing and selling paper.<ref>[https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/eegh004amst05_01/eegh004amst05_01_0167.php Vincent (Ysbrand) 1640/41-1718 by I.H. van Eeghen]</ref> The latter was one of the founders of Nil volentibus arduum and editor of their playwrights.}} In 1657 his father was living in Sierra Leone and was involved in Danish Africa Company, together with Hendrik Carloff.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tjtHAAAAcAAJ&dq=Cornelis+Joosten+Heyns&pg=PA22 Remonstrantie, aen de ... Staten Generael der Vereen. Nederlanden]</ref> The contract was signed in his (actually her) house.<ref>[https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1163%252F156853296x00555.zip&file=10.1163%252F18750176-90000062.pdf TWEE CONCURRENTEN VAN DE EERSTE WEST-INDISCHE COMPAGNIE by N. DE ROEVER]</ref><ref>[https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2975217/view Dark horses of business : overseas entrepreneurship in seventeenth-century Nordic trade in the Indian and Atlantic oceans by K.H. Wirta, p. 108-113]</ref> In 1666 he tried to save a ship named ''Charles'' after the Holmes's Bonfire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5075/3603|title = Inventarissen}}</ref> In 1668 Livinus (the Elder) and Ysbrand sold the house belonging to their mother.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5062/55|title = Inventarissen}}</ref> When Levinus married Joanna van Breda in 1683 his father was staying in the West Indies (?) and his half brother in Angoulême. Levinus lived at N.Z. Voorburgwal and from 1688 at Leliegracht (ZZ), with his wife and brother-in-law Anthony (-1693), who started the collection.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DTMCf4cY4YUC&dq=jan+velten+vincent&pg=PA93 Infelicities: Representations of the Exotic by Peter Mason]</ref> In 1693 he joined the Mennonites himself.
In 1697 he was visited by Peter the Great.<ref>Driessen, J. (1996) Tsaar Peter de Grote en zijn Amsterdamse vrienden. In samenwerking met het Amsterdams Historisch Museum.</ref> 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 1709 he sold his house in Amsterdam accompanied by Ysbrand Vincent. In 1712 Bernard Picart married his niece Anna Vincent; the wedding was in Haarlem, where Levinus had settled around 1705. He corresponded with James Petiver and Hans Sloane.<ref name="auto"/> In 1715 he became a member of the Royal Society.
Vincent and his wife took a lot of effort to present their collectables in a pleasurable and instructive spectacle. They ordered their shells and insects in elegant designs that resembled magnificent pieces of embroidery. Levinus Vincent aimed at the non-Latin-speaking public, printing the catalogue of his collection in both Dutch and French - ''Wondertooneel der Nature'' (''Wonder Theater of Nature''), giving details of all the objects on display.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Wondertooneelde00Vinc|title=Wondertooneel der nature, geopent in eene korte beschryvinge der hoofddeelen van de byzondere zeldsaamheden daar in begrepen; in orde gebragt en bewaart|first1=Levinus|last1=Vincent|first2=François (Amsterdam) prt (NL-LeOCL)077130855|last2=Halma|date=July 6, 1706|publisher=Te Amsterdam, : gedrukt by François Halma|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> This catalogue sold for three guilder plus a tip or entrance fee of two guilder. He had fixed hours for its visitors. His visitor book (from 1705 to 1737) includes at least 3,500 entries, including Charles III of Spain, François Valentijn and Albrecht von Haller.
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==Sources== * Bert van de Roemer, Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent's Wonder Theatre of Nature, Public Domain Review, (http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/08/20/redressing-the-balance-levinus-vincents-wonder-theatre-of-nature/) * Freedberg, D & J. de Vries (eds) (1991) Science, Commerce and Art. In: Art in History, History in Art, p. 379, 386. * Vincent, L. (1715) Wondertooneel der Natuur, ofte een Korte Beschrijvinge zo van Bloedelooze, Zwemmende, Vliegende, Kruipende, en Viervoetige Geklaauwde Eijerleggende Dieren ... bevat in de Kabinetten van Levinus Vincent, adorned with a handsome title-page designed by Romeyn de Hooghe.
==External links== {{commons category|Levinus Vincent}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080120084128/http://num-scd-ulp.u-strasbg.fr:8080/view/authors/Vincent,_Levinus.html Digital books (4) at the Universities of Strasbourg] *[http://www.kunstkammer.at/ideal.htm Kunstkammer] The Wunderkammer * [https://www.lindahall.org/levinus-vincent/ Levinus Vincent - Scientist of the Day] *Vincent, Levinus (1719) [http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/nat_hist/id/43982 ''Elinchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum, in gazophylacio''] - digital facsimile from Linda Hall Library
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