Career
He was of the Anabaptist faith. He collected naturalia (shells, insects, corals, birds, lizard and small mammals as wet preparations) and artificialia - (ethnography, paintings and drawings of flowers). They ordered their shells and insects in elagant designs that ressambled magnificent pieces of emboidery.
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.
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 Peter the Great. Levinus Vincent first lived in Amsterdam, and in 1705 he moved to Haarlem.
Vincent moved to the Hague, hoping to find a buyer among its many diplomats for his cabinet.