Henricus Jacobus Tollens
Henricus Jacobus Tollens (13 June 1864, in Dordrecht – 29 July 1936, in Hillegersberg) was a Dutch photographer and painter. He was one of the first Dutch professional photographers and is notable mainly for his photos of the city of Dordrecht. Tollens was born in 1864 in Dordrecht. His parents were Carolus Henricus Tollens (1824—1886), a coppersmith, and Hendrina Willemina Stoffels (1826—1901), a courier. At the age of 17, Tollens decided to become a photographer, but at the time there was no professional education for photographers in the Netherlands, and Tollens started to work with photographers, first Karel Le Grand and later Johann Georg Hameter in Dordrecht. When Hameter died on 1 January 1885, his widow signed a contract with Tollens who in 1890 started to run former Hameter's studio. The studio included three branches, in Dordrecht, Roermond (until 1898), and Eindhoven (until 1913). In 1889 he married Geertruida Johanna Teeuwen, and they had seven children, one son ...
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