Jacob J. Hinlopen
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Dutch East India Company
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in Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.Enkhuizen was one of the harbour-towns of the VOC, just like Hoorn and Amsterdam, from where overseas trade with the East Indies was conducted. It received city rights in 1355...
, his descendants inherited very old stocks. He also was the first person of Flemish origin, that in 1617 obtained a seat in the City Council
Vroedschap
The vroedschap was the name for the city council in the early modern Netherlands; the member of such a council was called a vroedman, literally a "wise man"...
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Jacob J. Hinlopen father
Jacob J. Hinlopen became a friend of Joost van den VondelJoost van den Vondel
Joost van den Vondel was a Dutch writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed, and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant , on the life of John the Baptist, has...
, at that time also an Arminian. His wife was Sara the Wael (1591-1652), the daughter of a Haarlem burgomaster, beerbrewer and investor in the new development, the Lastage. The couple inhabited Herengracht 130, a double wide mansion.
His brother Tijmen, to whom the Hinlopen Street on Svalbard
Svalbard
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. It is located north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude , and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the...
has been named was the director of the Noordsche Company and traded on Russia. Her brother Jan the Wael, just like their father burgomaster of Haarlem, was locked up in 1650 some weeks in the castle Loevestein
Loevestein
Castle Loevestein is a medieval castle built by the knight Dirc Loef van Horne between 1357 and 1397....
with Jacob de Witt
Jacob de Witt
Jacob de Witt, heer van Manezee, Melissant and Comstryen was a burgomaster of Dordrecht and the son of a timber merchant. He was also a younger brother of Andries de Witt and the father of Johan and Cornelis de Witt.-Career:Jacob was a member of the French patrician family De Witt...
, before the raid on Amsterdam by stadholder William II of Orange.
Jacob J. Hinlopen, son
After the death of their mother the two sons inherited the mansion, designed by Philips VingboonsPhilips Vingboons
Philips Vingboons was a Dutch architect. He was part of the school of Jacob van Campen, that is, Dutch Classicism. Vingboons was especially highly regarded in his native city of Amsterdam....
. Today Pijnenburg in the surroundings of Soest is still the largest domain in private possession. The ancestral house near the harbour was sold. The brothers bought lots in the Jordaan
Jordaan
The Jordaan is a district of the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The area is bordered by the Lijnbaansgracht canal to the west, the Prinsengracht to the east, the Brouwersgracht to the north and the Leidsegracht to the south...
, hired a carpenter, and speculated with the building of cheap houses.
Jacob became commissioner of the Desolate Boedelkamer (Chamber of Insolvent Estates) and was involved in the selling of Rembrandt possessions and the inheritance of Titus van Rijn
Titus van Rijn
Titus van Rijn was the fourth and only surviving child of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and Saskia van Uylenburgh...
, the son of Rembrandt.
Just like its brother Jan also Jacob J. Hinlopen (1621-1679) is known as a collectioneur of paintings, among other paintings: a Samson
Samson
Samson, Shimshon ; Shamshoun or Sampson is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ....
and Christ and the adulterous woman, both by Rembrandt. That last work he had bought in 1657 for 1500 guilders on an auction from Joannes the Renialme, an art trader. That painting was then regarded higher than any other work by Rembrandt.
Jacob lived on the Kloveniersburgwal, opposite of Jan Six
Jan Six
Jan Six was an important cultural figure in the golden age of the Netherlands.-Biography:...
who was related to his wife, Anna Tholinx. Jacob J. Hinlopen was until his dead tutor of Johanna Maria and Sara, the two children of his brother Jan J. Hinlopen. After his burial the paintings, formerly belonging to his brother, were assigned by lot to his nieces.
Jacob J. Hinlopen, grandson
Jacob J. Hinlopen (1644-1705) had married with Deborah Popta. This Jacob had very many functions, among which director of the VOCDutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...
, schout
Schout
In Dutch-speaking areas, a schout was a local official appointed to carry out administrative, law enforcement and prosecutorial tasks. The office was abolished with the introduction of administrative reforms during the Napoleonic period.- Functions:...
and burgomaster
Burgomaster
Burgomaster is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief magistrate or chairman of the executive council of a sub-national level of administration...
. He moved in 1680 to Golden Bend, in a house nowadays the Goethe Institute. He was the owner of renowned Rembrandt Christ in the storm on the lake. The fairly large painting was stolen in 1990, in a brutal manner from a museum in Boston. The thieves rang at the door and walked around for 81 minutes. According to Elvin Post the guard got stoned, before he started his job.