Dr. George Herman Hintzen (1851-1932) by Isaac Israels, 1920s

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) worked for Holland-China Trading Company, HCHC. Founded in 1903, the company had its head office in Rotterdam. One of the commissioners was Rotterdam resident Dr. George Herman Hintzen. The painted portrait was made by the Dutch painter Isaac Israels.

Nl.wikipedia.org:
"George Herman Hintzen (Amsterdam, 6 januari 1851 - Rotterdam, 18 november 1932) was een zakenman, bankier en liberaal politicus.

George Herman Hintzen was lid van de familie Hintzen en de jongste in een gezin van zeven kinderen van tabakskoopman Heinrich Christian Hintzen (1814-1853) en Johanna Quien (1817-1890). Na de lagere school in Amsterdam, ging hij naar de kostschool van Landholt in Vianen (1863-1866) en de hogere burgerschool in Amsterdam (1866-1868). Daarna werd hij bediende bij de tabaksfirma Wüste & Hintzen in Amsterdam, en liep hij stage bij handelskantoren in Londen en Le Havre. Van 1874 tot 1888 was hij koopman bij Philippi & Co. in Rotterdam. In 1888 trouwde hij met Theodora s'Jacob (1861-1941), lid van de familie s'Jacob, met wie hij een zoon en drie dochters zou krijgen.

Tussen 1888 en 1897 was Hintzen lid van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal, met een korte onderbreking in 1894. In de Kamer voerde hij zeer regelmatig het woord, vooral over zaken waar hij beroepsmatig een (handels)belang bij had, zoals de Indische begroting, diplomatieke zaken, sociale zaken, Rotterdam en de spoorwegen. Daarnaast richtte hij zich regelmatig op zaken die verband hielden met marine, oorlog, posterijen, belastingen en kiesrecht. Hij stelde zich over het algemeen liberaal op.

In 1897 werd hij benoemd tot wethouder van financiën van Rotterdam, wat hij tot 1903 zou blijven. Daarna werd hij firmant bij het bankiershuis R. Mees en Zonen.

Naast zijn reguliere werkzaamheden had Hintzen diverse nevenfuncties. Zo richtte hij de Vereniging tot verbetering der armenzorg op, en zat deze tussen 1878 en 1920 voor en was hij voorzitter van de Raad van Beheer van de Koninklijke Pakketvaart Maatschappij. Ook was hij lid van de Staatscommissie-Pijnacker Hordijk inzake de werkliedenverzekering (1895-1898) en de Staatscommissie-Godin de Beaufort inzake de financiële toestand van de gemeenten (1903-1906). Tijdens zijn werkzame periode als bankier was hij lid van diverse raden van commissarissen.

In 1896 werd Hintzen als lid van de commissie ter voorbereiding van de faillissementswet benoemd tot Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw, in 1900 werd hij als lid van de Nederlandse commissie voor de wereldtentoonstelling benoemd tot lid in het Legioen van Eer, in 1921 werd hij benoemd tot Commandeur in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau en bij zijn ontslag als voorzitter van de Commissie der diplomatieke examens tot Grootofficier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau. In 1928 werd hem een eredoctoraat in de handelswetenschappen verleend door de Nederlandsche Handels-Hoogeschool."
Note: Wikipedia uses the spelling George Hermann. Rogier Hintzen indicates that in documents he has, including those who belonged to his great-grandfather, the spelling is George Herman.

For readers understanding Dutch, the following may be interesting also:
resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/Index/bwn1...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Isra%C3%ABls
"Isaac Lazarus Israëls (3 February 1865 – 7 October 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.
The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida Schaap, Isaac Israëls displayed precocious artistic talent from an early age.

Between 1880 and 1882 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he met George Hendrik Breitner who was to become a lifelong friend. In 1881, when he was 16, he sold a painting, Bugle Practice, even before it was finished to the artist and collector Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Two portraits he made in the same year of his grandmother and a family friend, Nannette Enthoven (below), attest the technical ability he had attained by that age. Starting 1878, Israëls made annual visits to the Salon des Artistes Français with his father and in 1882 made his debut there with Military Burial. In the 1885 Salon he received an honourable mention for his Transport of Colonial Soldiers. At this time he was reading Émile Zola, as was Breitner, and following his triumph at the Salon he spent a year travelling in the Belgian mining districts and elsewhere.

Beginning 1886, Israëls lived in Amsterdam and registered with Breitner at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts to complete his schooling. Both of them, however, quickly abandoned the academy for the more progressive circle of the Tachtigers, an influential group of writers and artists of the time. This was a group that insisted style must reflect content and that emotionally charged subjects can only be represented by an equally intense technique. Influenced by this philosophy, Israëls became a painter of the streets, cafes, and cabarets of Amsterdam. At this time he met the Dutch engraver and painter Willem de Zwart who also became a lifelong friend.

He often spent his summers with his father in the Dutch seaside resort of Scheveningen near The Hague. Guests included Édouard Manet and Max Liebermann. Interested by the changing light of sun and sea, he painted many colourful seaside scenes.

Towards the end of the century, Israëls was introduced by his childhood friend and portrait painter Thérèse Schwartze to the Amsterdam fashion house Hirsch & Cie [nl] at the Leidseplein. Israëls portrayed the whole range of the world of haute couture, from seamstress to wealthy client, gaining access even to the fitting-rooms.

Israëls moved to Paris in 1904, establishing his studio at 10 rue Alfred Stevens, 48.881784°N 2.338651°E, near Montmartre and just yards away from the studio of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec whom he admired, as he also did Edgar Degas. As in Amsterdam, he painted the Parisian specific motifs: the public parks, cafes, cabarets and bistros, as well as such subjects as fairgrounds and circus acrobats. Likewise he sought out the fashion houses Paquin and Drecoll [fr] to continue his studies of the world of fashion. However, he only exhibited once in this period, in 1909.

At the outbreak of the First World War he was living in London, where he found new subjects in horse-riding at Rotten Row and in ballerinas and boxers. He returned to Holland for the duration of the war, living alternately in The Hague, Amsterdam and Scheveningen, where he worked primarily as a portrait painter. Amongst his sitters was Magaretha Gertrud Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, executed as a spy in France in 1917. Her portrait can be seen at the Kröller-Müller Museum. Other sitters included Johanna van Gogh-Bonger and the feminist physician Aletta Jacobs, although he also portrayed ordinary subjects such as girls in the street and telephone operators.

Following the war, Israëls visited Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm and London. He spent the years 1921 to 1922 travelling in India and the Dutch East Indies, sketching and painting the vibrant life of South East Asia and notably the gamelan players of Bali. On his return, he settled at Koninginnegracht 2, The Hague, 52.085924°N 4.315014°E, his deceased parents' home, where he remained for the rest of his life, nevertheless making regular trips abroad to London, Italy and the French Riviera.

At the age of 63, he won a Gold Medal at the 1928 Olympic Games for his painting Red Rider, an art competition then being part of the games.

He died in The Hague on 7 October 1934, aged 69, as a result of a street accident a few days before. His partner at that time was Sophie de Vries."

Photo by Pieter Lommerse

Courtesy Hintzen-Ravesteyn family archives

Taken on: May 2, 2019

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