Portrait of a Javanese gentleman in Western dress, most likely an administrative official within the Dutch East Indies government, with a young girl beside him — possibly his daughter. On the back, the name “Frans” is pencilled in. Made at the studio of H. Salzwedel & Co, Surabaya.
John Orme Roe (Macclesfield, 1812 – Rotterdam, 23 October 1892) was a well-known writer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature — a society with around 500 members at the time, who were entitled to use the abbreviation F.R.S.L. after their name.
This cdv shows more than just an unknown sitter: it is Pieter Harting (Rotterdam, 27 February 1812 – Amersfoort, 3 December 1885), professor at Utrecht University and versatile natural scientist — biologist, physician, pharmacologist, mathematician, methodologist and hydrologist. He is best known for his biological work, his improved microscope designs, and his studies of the subsurface of western and central Netherlands; he was also among the first Dutch supporters of Darwin’s theory of evolution. The card is signed by hand ‘P. Harting 1876’ — customary at the time for collectible cdvs of well-known contemporaries.
Otto Baron van Hogendorp (The Hague, 17 March 1858 – La Tour-de-Peilz, 17 June 1936), pictured here in April 1876 at eighteen years of age, at the studio of H. Hemmers (Photographie d’Art) in The Hague. He earned his doctorate in law in 1884 in Leiden and from 1913 served as chamberlain-in-extraordinary-service to Queen Wilhelmina. He married on 23 January 1902 in Amsterdam to Agatha Johanna Elisabeth van Notten.
This cdv is a photographic reproduction of a painting of Catharina Elisabeth Duffhus (6 May 1788 – 27 December 1851); the original painting is held by the Netherlands Institute for Art History. Her husband was Joseph Mitschke, a merchant in Utrecht. One of her grandchildren was the later politician and minister Jan Harte van Tecklenburg — she was thus the maternal grandmother of Anna Maria Theresia Mitschke (see also her portrait in this collection).
Anna Maria Theresia Mitschke (Rotterdam, 1 April 1826 – Hilversum, 15 September 1890) was married to Joannes Jacobus Harte, a merchant in Utrecht. The couple had nine children, among them the later politician and minister Joannes Josephus Ignatius (Jan) Harte van Tecklenburg (see also the family portrait in this collection). Here she is pictured with one of her younger children.
Henricus Germanus Josephus Mattheus Heijmans (born Utrecht, 1 March 1861) was a student in Utrecht from 24 September 1880. This 1881 portrait, made at the studio of J.H. Kramer in Utrecht, shows him in costume as a ‘Dutch horseman’.
Joannes Josephus Ignatius Harte van Tecklenburg (Utrecht, 15 October 1853 – The Hague, 4 July 1937), photographed in 1881 at the studio of Albert Lüssow in Utrecht, where he posed in costume ‘as the Lord of Hauteville’. He was an ambitious Catholic politician, initially belonging to the conservative wing, later a follower of Schaepman; a member of the House of Representatives for the district of Grave and the Catholics’ financial specialist. As Minister of Finance in the Kuyper cabinet he achieved little legislation and came too late with his proposal for a protectionist Tariff Act. By Royal Decree of 28 December 1894 he was permitted to add ‘Van Tecklenburg’ to his surname — before that he was simply called Jan Harte. (See also the family portrait of his parents elsewhere in this collection.) This portrait shows him seated.
Gustav Albert Lüssow worked as a photographer on the Keizerstraat in Utrecht from around 1863 to 1889 (source: RKD).
Family portrait of Joannes Jacobus Harte (1823–1869) and his wife Anna Maria Theresia Mitschke (1826–1890), with their nine children. Among them is the later politician and minister Joannes Josephus Ignatius (Jan) Harte van Tecklenburg (1853–1937) — here still a child, not the standing father in this photo. Harte van Tecklenburg became an ambitious Roman Catholic politician: initially belonging to the conservative wing, later a follower of Schaepman. Through his marriage to a daughter of margarine manufacturer Jurgens he became a member of the House of Representatives for the district of Grave. He was regarded as the Catholics’ financial specialist and was Minister of Finance from 1901 to 1905 in the Kuyper cabinet; his proposal for a protectionist Tariff Act came too late to be dealt with. He closed his career with twenty-six years as a member of the Council of State. Contemporaries described him as ramrod-straight, self-satisfied and somewhat pedantic. (See also his portraits in costume elsewhere in this collection.)
The nine children: Joannes Josephus Ignatius Harte van Tecklenburg (1853–1937), Joseph Maria Petrus Harte (1855–1937), Petrus Joannis Antonius Harte (1856–1931), Wilhelmus Petrus Antonius Harte (1859–1933), Wilhelmina Maria Elisabeth Harte (1860–1945), Johanna Clementia Maria Harte (1863–1936) and Vincentius Florian Alouisius Harte (1865–1885).
Gustav Albert Lüssow worked as a photographer on the Keizerstraat in Utrecht from around 1863 to 1889 (source: RKD).
Jean Jacquet, photographed at the studio of P. Weynen & Fils in Maastricht (1867–1869). On the back is written: ‘Oncle Jean Jacquet, père de: Maria, Melanie, Gustave, Théophile’ — he was thus the father of Maria, Mélanie, Gustave and Théophile Jacquet.
Julie Jacquet, photographed at the studio of P. Weynen & Fils in Maastricht (1867–1869). On the back is written: ‘Tante Julie Jacquet, moeder van Alphonse en Emile’ (‘Aunt Julie Jacquet, mother of Alphonse and Emile’).
Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Mutsaers (Tilburg, 3 August 1833 – Tilburg, 12 February 1907) was a son of manufacturer Bernardus Jacobus Mutsaers and Elisabeth Boex — and thus a brother of Antonius Johannes Franciscus Mutsaers (see his portrait in this collection). By trade he was a manufacturer of woollen fabrics. In 1868, aged 35, he was elected member of the Provincial States for the city of Tilburg. From 1874 to 1901 he served on the Provincial Executive, and from 1889 to 1905 he was a member of the House of Representatives, successively for the districts of Eindhoven and Waalwijk. By Royal Decree of 3 December 1901 he was appointed mayor of Tilburg and installed on 23 December of that year, aged 69. This portrait (studio J. Maes, Brussels) dates from around 1860–1865.
Bernardus Jacobus Mutsaers (Tilburg, 16 July 1795 – Tilburg, 20 August 1872) was a wine merchant and member of the Provincial States of North Brabant from 1843 to 1867. He was co-founder and regent of the Sint Elisabethgasthuis (1827), council member and president of the society Philharmonie, Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion and Commander in the Order of the Oak Crown. He married in 1826 in Eindhoven to Elisabeth Boex (Eindhoven, 1799–1835) and, in a second marriage, to Catharina van Roessel (Tilburg, 1808–1848).
Antonius Johannes Franciscus Mutsaers (Tilburg, 1 July 1831 – Haaren, 1 December 1904) — a brother of Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Mutsaers, mayor of Tilburg (see his portrait in this collection) — was ordained a priest in 1855 in Haaren and appointed chaplain in Stratum two years later. From 1861 he was a professor at the second division of the seminary. On 24 March 1878 he was appointed canon of the cathedral chapter of ’s-Hertogenbosch, later president of the seminary, private chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII, and a member of the board of management of the institute for the deaf-mute. On 29 August 1894 he was made a Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau. This portrait (studio L. Stollenwerk, ’s-Hertogenbosch) shows him as a young man.
Leonard Stollenwerk ran a ‘Photographisch Atelier’ in ’s-Hertogenbosch from 1864 to 1883 (source: RKD).
Dionijs (Jr) Burger (Rotterdam, 4 February 1820 – Amersfoort, 31 October 1891) was a classicist and philosopher, translator of Spinoza’s Ethics, and from 1857 to 1886 rector of the Latin school (the gymnasium) in Amersfoort. A contemporary wrote of him: “Plato remained what occupied him most, yet he was at home in the whole history and intellectual life of antiquity, and a guide to many. He also devoted himself to modern Greek, which earned him honorary membership of the literary circle Byron in Athens.” After his retirement in 1886, he continued to live in Amersfoort as a private citizen.
Anthonia Jacoba Ockerscau (Rotterdam, 7 May 1821 – Amersfoort, 10 September 1878) and her husband Dionijs (Jr) Burger (Rotterdam, 4 February 1820 – Amersfoort, 31 October 1891). Dionijs Jr Burger was a classicist and philosopher, translator of Spinoza’s Ethics and rector of the gymnasium in Amersfoort (see also his own portrait in this collection).
Anthonia Jacoba Ockerscau (Rotterdam, 7 May 1821 – Amersfoort, 10 September 1878) was married to Dionijs (Jr) Burger.
This double portrait shows Dionijs Burger (Rotterdam, 31 December 1787 – Rotterdam, 17 November 1860) and his wife Anna van Rijckevorsel (Rotterdam, 30 April 1792 – Rotterdam, 23 October 1862). Dionijs Burger founded the Rotterdam shipping and forwarding firm D. Burger en Zoon and served as United States consul. The portraits are reproductions of 1851 lithographs by Johan Peter Berghaus.
Anna van Rijckevorsel (Rotterdam, 30 April 1792 – Rotterdam, 23 October 1862) was married to Dionijs Burger, founder of the Rotterdam shipping and forwarding firm D. Burger en Zoon and United States consul (see also the double portrait of the couple in this collection).
Dionijs Lorié (Rotterdam, 4 December 1857 – The Hague, 28 February 1930) was the son of Adriaan Lorié and Anna Josina Burger. He married Cornelia Catharina Hendrika Kleijn van Willigen — a sister of Volkert Kleijn van Willigen, whom his sister Anna married. This portrait (studio A. Böeseken, Rotterdam) shows him as a growing boy by a balustrade.
Anna Lorié (born Rotterdam, 4 January 1856) was the daughter of Adriaan Lorié and Anna Josina Burger. She married Volkert Kleijn van Willigen. This portrait (studio A. Böeseken, Rotterdam) shows her as a young woman by a balustrade.
Anna Josina Burger (Rotterdam, 8 October 1821 – Hof van Delft, 11 July 1893) was a daughter of a well-known Rotterdam shipping agent. She married notary Adriaan Lorié (see also his portrait in this collection). This marriage produced, among others, Anna (1856) and Dionijs (1857).
Adriaan Lorié (Rotterdam, 11 May 1820 – Rotterdam, 11 February 1882) was a notary in Rotterdam. He served as a commissioner of the Nuts Spaarbank and of an insurance company. He was married to Anna Josina Burger, daughter of a well-known Rotterdam shipping agent (cargadoor); the couple had, among others, the children Anna (1856) and Dionijs (1857), whose portraits can also be seen in this collection. Lorié was a son of Jan Lorié and Margaretha Johanna de Booij.
A young priest, seated at a table with books. Produced by Georges, Utrecht — the same studio as the portrait of Archbishop Schaepman in this collection. Name not known.