Victor Eugène Louis de Stuers was a Dutch art historian, lawyer, civil servant and politician.
Education
He was highly active in the cultural field – he is widely regarded as the father of historic preservation in the Netherlands, played a notable part in keeping Vermeer"s Girl with a Pearl Earring in the Netherlands and chose the architect Pierre Cuypers (a fellow Catholic and fellow Limburger) to design the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He studied law in Leiden and is still known there for his drawings in the old tower of the Academy building (Academiegebouw).
Career
Education and career
After graduation he became a lawyer in The Hague but continued his interests in art and preservation science, joing several committees on art restoration. Drawings by Victor de Stuers in the Academiegebouw Leiden (1865)
Rijksmuseum
He was the first head of a conservation department in the Dutch government and his department was later renamed Monuments after he died. Politics
Marriage and issue.