Apolonia van Hoeck - bookseller, print dealer, art dealer, and map seller
On this website, historical women from the maritime sector share their stories. This is the story of Apolonia van Hoeck.
About Apolonia van Hoeck
- Occupation: bookseller, print dealer, art dealer, and map seller; she ran an art and map shop. Selling paintings was also part of her work.
- Lived: circa 1660–after 1704
- Employer: she ran her own business
- In which maritime sector did she work? unknown
What kind of work did she do?
She began this work after her husband Johannes Tangena passed away (1692), though possibly as early as when her husband took over the business in 1687, and continued until 1704. From 1691 to 1695, the shop was located on Breestraat in Leiden, “under the Town Hall,” and thereafter on Rapenburg (across from the Academy Building) at the corner of Sonneveltsteeg (now Kloksteeg) in Leiden. The company published almanacs as well as maritime and non-maritime prints and books. She collaborated with, among others, the artist and engraver Romeyn de Hooghe.
What else is there to say about her life?
Van Hoeck and Tangena were married on December 13, 1682, and had at least four children. She is buried in the Pieterskerk, choir aisle number 12 and/or 92. Johannes Tangena and two of their children (Geertruyt and Pieter) are also buried here, as are her father Pieter van Hoeck and mother Geertruyt Ebbens.
*Not in the exhibition
Attacks by the combined English-Dutch fleets under Russell and Almonde on the French under Tourville at the Battle of Cape La Hogue, May 29–31 and June 1692. Print published by the widow of Johannes Tangena (Apolonia van Hoeck), 1692.
