Background
Hulk was born in Amsterdam in 1829. He was the youngest son of the merchant Hendrik Hulk and his English wife Mary Burroughs.
painter Photographer draughtsman
Hulk was born in Amsterdam in 1829. He was the youngest son of the merchant Hendrik Hulk and his English wife Mary Burroughs.
As a painter he mainly painted landscapes, seascapes, cities, villages, and harbors. Hulk was not only a painter, but also a draftsman and owned a painting and drawing supplies store, De Rembrandt ("The Rembrandt"), on the Rokin in Amsterdam. After the advent of photography, he trained himself in this new discipline.
Together with his partner, Pieter Vlaander, he ran a photographic studio called Rembrandt, also on the Rokin.
They worked together as the photographic studio Hulk & Vlaander until 1867. They also opened a studio on the Geldersekade in Rotterdam.
Hulk lived and worked most of his life in Amsterdam and in the nearby Sloten. After 1901 he lived successively in Vreeland, Abcoude and Haarlem.
Hulk was married twice.
He died in 1911 in Haarlem. He is buried at the Family cemetery in Muiderberg. Hulk held exhibitions of his photographic work at the Paleis voon Volksvlijt ("Palace of Industry") in Amsterdam in 1865, and in the Prentenkabinet ("Print Room") at the University of Leiden.
Arti et Amicitiae]
He was a member of the artists" society Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.