Career
According to the RKD he learned architecture and draughtsmanship from his father, January van der Hart, and became an architect specialized in Neoclassicism, who built the Hodson house and Barnaart house in Haarlem. In Amsterdam, he built the theatre De Kleine Komedie and redesigned the Trippenhuis in 1815-1817 to house an art and print cabinet that later merged with the Rijksmuseum.