Gladys Hadkinson (IV): her fathers family

Gladys Hadkinson (IV) 

her fathers family. 

Gladys' father Charles Richard Hadkinson for a reason not yet understood, had settled from Smyrne to the Greece" mainland around 1890; expansion of the family business, political reasons ? And what lead him and his brother later to Alexandria ?  

Charles and his sister Lilian (1874-1972)

Charles owned an estate (he is mentioned as "farmer") near Krivolak in Macedonia, and is also mentioned as a mine director and probably served in 1910/20's in the Britsh Armed Forces on the Balkan. His three children were born in Macedonia. After WW1 Smyrne was occupied buy the Greeck but in 1922 Kemal Ataturk liberated the region. Now all the mainland is Turkish. 

From the 17th century several European countries controlled the profitable Levantine trade. First of all the Dutch, controlling the trade from Amsterdam but the British and the French and many other European countries participated. 

All nations established consulates organizing legal and diplomatic services, trading houses, transport (ships) business, consuls, diplomats etc.. Many families came to stay, we find generations of European settled in their own communities and marriages between "European Greecs" were frequent. A very international and prosperous society. 
    

Smyrne (now Izmir) is a natural harbour situated on the East coast of Turkey, one of the important classic cities like Troie, of ancient Greece. It was and is the gateway to the Levant (Eastern Mediterranean world), the  Middle-East (through ancient Aleppo in Syria) and connected through the silk-route to Persia, India and the far east. 

Ancient Greece World and modern Greece after 1922
    

Gladys grandfather Robert Hadkinson (Smyrne 1840-1924) was born in Smyrna as oldest son of Charles Hadkinson (1815-1881) who was born in Malta while his father James Hadkinson (1788-1855) originated from Manchester and married in Malta 1814 Scottish Amalia Johnson (Moffat Sc. 1798-1866 Manchester) but after a few years settling in Smyrne around 1820. They followed trading routes and "the money" to the Levant. 

Smyrna harbour around 1895

Founding the first olive oil factory in the mid 1870's Robert Hadkinson soon after owned several more factories near the sea growing into Anatolia's largest oil producer at the end of the 20th century owning two sunflower-, four sesame-, six cottonseed and ten olive- oil factories. He imported steam engines from England to power his factories. His mother Constanza Makritz (1822-1894) was born in Lussino (Croatia) but her name indicates a possible German descent. Robert had 10 brothers and sisters.   

Robert Hadkinson came to lead the British olive-oil & soap factories financed by investors in London in which also several brothers were involved. It is not far fetched assuming the Hadkinson family around this time was of considerable financial means.  

Robert married Anna Elisabeth Keun (1846-1911) from a 4th generation Smyrne Keun family of diplomats. Her great-grandfather Abraham Keun came to Smyrne as consul appointed by the Dutch VOC "Levantine Chamber" from Amsterdam, which was residing in newly build the "Palace on the Dam" in the late 18th century. 

Prosperous Amsterdam around 1775 seen by Hendrik Keun (not related) 

Consul Abraham Keun and administrator Jean Jacques Dutilh, who was also to become one of Gladys' ancestors settled in Smyrne both marrying a daughter of George Boddington the British Consul. The Fantozzi and Purdie family's (above) were also (high) officials in Smyrne's administration. Dutilh was from French Huguenot descent, his protestant family  fled persecution from Bordeaux after 1685 (Edict of Fontainebleau) to Amsterdam.  

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This completes more or less my research in Gladys Hadksinson's ancestors and family. Please send any information, corrections or comments for sharing. 

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Gladys Hadkinson (III) her mothers family.

Gladys Hadkinson (III)

(her mothers family) 

Researching a bit further into the life and history of the artist Gladys Hadkinson today I share these results: her mothers family. Ernestine Hadkinson-Seiffert obviously tried hard to invest in the education of her children. She wrote to the well known and respected painter etcher (and orientalist) Philippe Zilcken probably to have them(?) accepted as his students. 

Zilcken owned a famous collection of antique and oriental shoes. He started his collection after the Amsterdam World Exhibition of 1883 in Amsterdam, the worlds first colonial and orientalist exhibition, and was later donated many specimens. Also by Ernestine Hadkinson-Seiffert described in 1901/02 as living in "Saloniki".
   

Ernestine Seiffert was the eldest daughter of three children by the musician Carl August Heinrich Seiffert and Constance Marie Dorothea Lubeck. 

Ernestine was born 1863, her brother Henri in 1866 and her sister Wilhelmina Constance in 1867, all born in the Hague. 

British author and music critic Bernard Shaw probably heard Ernestine's brother Henri Seiffert play. He is mentioned in his published  1890-1893 reviews of "Music in London". Henri's 1893 autograph showed up in Ebay recently.     

Wilhelmina never married, she died 1943, while Henri became a well known international violinist living in Potsdam near Berlin until around 1937 visiting London in 1893 (above).

Prinsengracht the Hague, where the Royal Music School was (Joh. Weissenbruch) around 1850 when August arrived in the Hague  

August Seiffert was born in Postdam near Berlin 14-1-1822 as son of Ernst Seiffert and Wilhelmina Hendricks and came to the Hague as a musician in 1851, probably appointed as a teacher in the Royal Music School, lead by Johan Hendrik Lubeck, at the Prinsengracht and/or musician in the Royal "Hofkapel". Students in the Music School were also allowed and invited to play "surnumérair" in the Hofkapel, serving as a training centre. In 1860 he married Constance the daughter of the Music School's first director Johann Heinrich Lubeck in the Hague. I assume Lubeck knew August, he may well have been his wife's nephew.  

In Potsdam (and Beskow) lived a musical Seiffert family with another later quite famous member: musicologist Max Seiffert (1868-1948). The violinist Henri probably later returned to his roots living in Berlin/Potsdam. 

August Seiffert was appointed (4th) conductor in 1870 of the "Haags Toonkunst Koor" a well respected choeur later led by famous conductors like Willem Mengelberg. August Seiffert lead the choeur for 15 years 1870-1885. August's father in law J.H. Lubeck was to be it's first conductor (1834-1860), a family business.

  

         

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Johann Heinrich Lübeck 

(Wesel, Germany. 11-2-1798 - 7-2-1865 the Hague, Netherlands)
(son of Johan Henri Lubeck and Christine Steinhart) 
(Knighted in 1842)

Virtuoso violinist and composer, studying with Louis Spohr, probably in Kassel, and M. Bauver (Bauer, Beauvet ? I was not able to identify this musician) and music-theory in Potsdam. Potsdam was a musically important centre founded by music loving Frederick the Great (1712-1786) living in his nearby palace "Sans Souci". I suppose in Potsdam he met his future wife Wilhelmina Seiffert while studying music theory.    

His teacher Louis Spohr (1756-1843) and Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) considered the greatest violinist virtuosos of their (maybe all) time. 

Johann Heinrich Lubeck worked and travelled as virtuoso and musical director all over Germany: in Leipzig, Berlin, Riga, Stettin, Danzig and Königsbergen before settling 1823 as concert-master in Amsterdam and a few years later was appointed concert-master, violinist and conductor and first director 1827 in the Hague Royal Music school) and royal teacher to princess Louise van Oranje (1828-1871) granddaughter of King Willem-I who founded the school in 1826. She became the later queen of Sweden.

With Johan Hendrik Lubeck (Dutch spelling) we also find his two  brothers in the Hague: 

Frederik Wilhelm Lubeck (b. around 1811 - 1850) an international violinist pianist and composer. He probably studied with his elder brother becoming later first violinist of his "Hofkapel" and teacher in his royal music school. He later was appointed concert-master in Hannover (Germany) and:

Johann Josef Lubeck, also a musician in the "Hofkapel". His son Adriaan settles in Semarang Netherland East-Indies, his grandson Paul Lubeck was also a violinist and music teacher.  

J.H. Lubeck by mr. engraver Willem Steelinck sr. (1826-1913)

Lubeck married (probably in Potsdam) Maria Wilhelmina Seiffert (b. Potsdam – d. 1876 the Hague) they had three children:

Louis Lubeck (the Hague 1838- 1904 Berlin) who was a composer en cellist living in Leipzig and in Berlin.

Ernst Lubeck (the Hague 1829 - 1876 Paris) an international pianist but who went insane, living in Paris.

Constanze Marie Dorothea Lubeck (The Hague 1831- d. after 1894 ?). She was Gladys' grandmother who married August Seiffert (possibly her nephew).

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Next: Gladys Hadkinson's Levantine ancestors in Smyrne/Izmir.   

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Gladys Hadkinson II: continued

Gladys Hadkinson (II)
(Macedonia/Greece 1895 - 1925 Paris)

 new information & continued

Last week a nice lady from the Hague emailed me. She'd started investigating a portrait drawing of a Indonesian noble boy (prince ?) in the "Kraton" (a palace of a Iocal Indonesian ruler) bought in an auction and since decades in her cherished possession, her late husband had been of Indonesian descent. Thus she found Gladys Hadkinson in the Blog. 

The drawing is dated 1919 and since Gladys is registered living (off and on) in the Hague 1911 - 1921 I assume she was visiting her sister Dorothy (read later) who, after marrying had emigrated to the Dutch East-Indies in 1915. My research into the artist Gladys Hadkinson started with finding this etching in a local car boot  and over the weeks has revealed a highly intriguing history worth sharing. 

Starting with what I know about her direct family: she was born and spend her youth with her younger brother Ronald Oliver (b.1897)  and elder sister Dorothy (b.1892) in an estate in Krivolak, Macedonia, a pretty desolate region, where her father Charles Hadkinson was a "farmer" no doubt in the olive and soap business started by his father in the late 19th century in Smyrna/Greece, now Izmir/Turkey. Much more about his family later. Charles Hadkinson I also found mentioned in the Macedonian Allchar mining business as a director.  

How her father and mother met is still a riddle but we find the Hadkinson family living in the-Hague Netherlands 1911/1921 arriving shortly before the outbreak of WW1: in the Halmstraat (1911/14) and later in the Daendelstraat 76 (until 1921 when mother Ernestine and daughter Gladys moved to Munich). Her mother writing from London and the Hague in the late 1890's and early 1900's. I think they choose settling in the Netherlands for the education of their children.  

The-Hague had been the birthplace of Gladys' mother Ernestine Seiffert (1863 - Surabaya 1928). She was from a very musical family: more later. Charles Hadkinson probably returned regularly to his Macedonian estate. He is also mentioned as a military in the British forces in Macedonia during WW1. The Hadkinson family travelled between London and the-Hague finally moving to Munich in 1921. Gladys died in Paris in 1925 and her mother in Surabaya in 1928. I will tell more about Gladys' Dutch maternal and Greek/British/Dutch/Italian/Turkish paternal ancestors in next posting. 

Gladys' sister Dorothy Hadkinson married in the-Hague in 1914 and 1915 emigrated with her husband Friedrich Neumann through London to Surabaya, Java in the Dutch East-Indies. His Neumann family had a long history as clerks, residents and plantation owners in Amboina (Ambon archipelago) and probably had arrived in 1792 with one Gottlieb Neumann sailing as a German soldier in the Dutch East-India company (VOC) (much more later). In 1916 her brother Ronald Oliver, aged 19, sailed for Medan with the steam-freighter SS Menado (below) probably to visit his sister. 

Gladys will have spent some 10 years in the Hague roughly between the age of 16 and 26 and probably was taught artistically privately by Philippe Zilcken (1857-1930) the etcher working and living in the Hague. Her mother had been in contact  with Zilcken from London in the late 1890's until 1907. I found Ronald-Oliver Hadkinson later living in London, before WW2. We know Gladys went to Paris, to study, but died tragically, only 29 years old in or shortly after giving birth to her daughter Sylvia Georgina Ruth Hadkinson in 1925.

The marriage between her parents Charles and Ernestine must have ended in separation because a year after her mother Ernestine died in Surabaya (living or visiting her daughter and grand-daughter Sylvia ?) in 1928 her father Charles Hadkinson (1865-1924) remarried in Athens but already having fathered a daughter Gladys Artemis (b. 1924) and Robert Theodor (b.1925). Charles Hadkinson died 1942 in Alexandria (Egypt) as did his younger brother Richard Hadkinson in 1943. 

Gladys' daughter Sylvia (left) was probably raised by her sister Dorothy Neumann-Hadkinson who'd emigrated to the Dutch East-Indies in 1915. I was not able to find if she and her husband  had any (other) children.  In the ships passengers list I found Dorothy Neumann-Hadkinson sailing from London in 1933 with SS Baloeran (below leaving Rotterdam) to Egypt. 

Somehow Sylvia found her way back to the Netherlands because shortly after WW2 she married Louis Kampman and started a family in Haarlem, then emigrating in 1952 to Brisbane, New South Wales, Australia. Where I also found Dorothy Neumann-Hadkinson. Sylvia Kampman-Hadkinson died in 2011. One of her daughters (Iris b. 1948) today is living in Brisbane. 

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With the publication of my personal research into the life and family of the short lived artist Gladys Hadkinson I sincerely hope not to have intruded in any family affairs. All the information revealed was, with some perseverance, found in the Internet. Next will be the highly interesting international ancestors of Charles Hadkinson (entrepreneurs) from Smyrne (now Izmir in Turkey) and Ernestine Seiffert (musicians) in the Hague originally from Germany. 

I have requested the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for sending me the (not available for the public) correspondence of Ernestine Hadkinson with the etcher Philippe Zilcken, probably the teacher of her daughters and works of art, probably a bequest by Gladys sister Dorothy Neumann-Hadkinson, held in its archives. 

If you happen to stumble over this posting and have any knowledge for sharing about the persons mentioned and are willing to share please send.

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Déjà vu, East meets West ?

Recently I stumbled over this water color painting by leading contemporary Chinese water color artists and university professor Huayi Yu (1922 -) and it reminded me of my recent visit to the important Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) exposition (near my hometown in Leeuwarden-Friesland november 2016 - ) still impressed by the dazzling use of perspective in Tadema's  "Point of Vantage". It left me in wonder ................

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Googling, more exciting examples of this Chinese water color artist can be be found. 

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Davignon: unknown aquatint etcher

Davignon

unknown aquatint etcher,
probably working in or visiting the Netherlands around 1930. 

After a break and absence I'ld like to start 2017 with a suggestion from Wolfgang in Frankfurt. He pointed me to this aquatint etching showing the Koepelkerk and the Singel (canal) in Amsterdam. The Lutheran church was build around 1670.  

The etcher so far I was not able to identify, he is not mentioned in any of the Lexicons (some earlier, 19th century Avignon family members are in Benezit), also because Googling the family name gets mixed up with Picasso's famous 1916 "Demoiselles d'Avignon" considered the first modernist painting of the 20th century showing 5 prostitutes in an Avignon brothel. 

The characteristic Koepel church is depicted by many artists very often and this is one of the nicest examples I know by Frans Langeveld (1877-1939). 

I found one other example by the etcher "Davignion" showing the Dom (tower build 1250-1500) in Utrecht seen with the Stadhoudersbrug (bridge). The tower is in scaffolds so probably seen by the artist around 1930. The tower was under restoration in 1921-38. 

If you happen to stumble over this posting and have more information, biographical or examples of his (or hers) work please contact me or send for sharing. 

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Elisabeth Schulz, Dresden painter and graphic artist

Elisabeth Sara von Schulz

(Dresden 28-10-1884 - 13-01-1968 Dresden)

Painter an graphic artist in Dresden

A Lisbeth Schultz, “Maler” is mentioned in Dresslers Kunsthandbuch 1930 at Wiltrudenstraße 5 in Munich.  Not Lisbet, not Schulz. Not Elisabeth Sara (von) Schulz. 

Confusing, if one is looking for an obscure printmaker, a graphic artist and a painter by that name not knowing if it is one or two persons. I learned the use of Schulz, Schultz, and Schulß are all “allowed” writing this family name in that period (before 1940).  

The Dresden painter was the daughter of “Generalleutnant” Richard Adolph von Schulz (1849-1923) and Adelheid Elisabeth Sahrer von Sahr (1855-?). She had two sisters: Marie Adelheid Schulz (1882-1948) and Margarethe Adolphine Schulz (1889-1959). Her father remaried Armgard Margarethe von Veltheim (1870-1939).They are all interred in Dresden in a family grave. 

  

She is also known to have used the name Sarette von Schulz (her friends used the call her “Sarettchen”) after Sara or after her mothers maiden family name Sahrer von Sahr.

The painter Elisabeth Sara (von) Schulz worked and lived in Dresden and had studied in “Karlsruhe Malerinnenschule” with Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927) and etcher Walter Conz (1872-1947), in Berlin with Johann Walter Kurau (1869-1932) and Hans Nadler (1879-1958) in Dresden. Her painting technique shows her great admiration for her Baltic teacher Kurau (who is also known as Johann Valters) and closely resembles his style and use paint and color.There is no mentioning of the painter ever having lived in Munich. 

Above Walter Kurau, below Elisabeth von Schulz

There are indications, master and student visiting the same location and perhaps even using the same nude model. Printmaker Eva Langkammer (1884-1956) was an important representative of Kurau’s important school of painting, 

Above Walter Kurau, middle Eva Langkammer, below Elisabeth von Schulz

She worked as a nurse in WWI.  In Dresden she met and became friends with modernist artists Elisabeth Ahnert (1885-1966), Albert Wigand (1890-1978) and Dresden printmaker Ruth Meier (1888-1965) and therefore also will have been acquainted with Dresden painting school owner Martha Schrag (1870-1957).

She is also graphically known by at least one etching showing Dresden and river Elbe, signed “Sarah Schulz”. Another composition has an illegible signature (Sara Schulz ?) but also uses a monogram (left, in a triangle) LS, which may be a clue to the suggestion the painter and printmaker might be the same artist................. or not.

The printmaker uses besides “Lisbet Schulz” the monogram “LS” while the painter used the initials E.S, EvS and SvS.  

To complicate things further: Lisbet Schulz, the printmaker, is mentioned in the archives of the “Letter Stiftung” in Cologne with dates (28-10-1884 – "last mentioned 1958"), the dates belonging to the painter Elisabeth Sara von Schulz (below).

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Please send any comment, corrections, suggestions, any biographical or artistic information on, and more examples of prints and paintings by this artist for sharing. 

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