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HIST_make sense of.docxJoachim Rendorp
California State University, Long Beach
Student: Ariel Lamb
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Joachim Rendorp, Vrijheer of Marquette, was a Dutch politician of the Patriottentijd in the Dutch Republic. He was born in Amsterdam on January 19, 1728, and died there on September 21, 1792.
== Individual life ==
Pieter Rendorp, burgemeester of Amsterdam, and Margaretha Calkoen were the parents of Rendorp. He was the scion of a wealthy brewing family that had previously been German and Lutheran. In the 1640s, the Amsterdam Regenten class had accepted him despite the Dutch Reformed Church's prejudice against non-members. As a member of the Amsterdam Lutheran congregation's board of regency, he was granted a sinecure in 1744. He was given a commission in the Amsterdam Schutterij two years later. In 1750, he received his legal degree. In 1756, he wed Wilhelmina Hildegonda Schuijt, the daughter of a burgemeester. Out of their five offspring, only one son made it to adulthood.
== Professional Journey ==
Although though his brewery was a significant source of revenue, Rendorp was mostly a rentier with plenty of free time to devote to the arts and politics. Among the sinecures he collected were "the Meesterknaap (foresters) of Holland." In addition to serving on the board of the Admiralty of Amsterdam, he held positions as Director of the Dutch colony Suriname, Commissioner of the Audit Court of the province of Holland, and Member of the Gecommitteerde Raden (Executive) of the States of Holland, thanks to his membership in the Amsterdam vroedschap.
Soon after joining the Amsterdam vroedschap, Rendorp was involved in the administration of the city. He belonged to the Dutch States Party, which was, like other Amsterdam regents,
the natural rival of the Orangists in the years following the death of William V, Prince of Orange in 1766 (albeit one could see some ideological kinship with the latter through his works).
The prospect that the American Revolution might allow the American Colonies to resume unrestricted trade after 1775, in defiance of the British Navigation Acts, piqued the keen interest of the Amsterdam merchants. A draft treaty of amity and commerce was the outcome of covert discussions between American ambassador William Lee and Amsterdam financier Jean de Neufville in Aachen in 1778, which were initiated with the help of the pensionary Engelbert François van Berckel. The Dutch government and the official municipal government of Amsterdam did not approve of these informal negotiations. Rendorp was among the officials that pursued van Berckel in order to placate British ambassador Sir Joseph Yorke, until they were exposed by the British in 1780 when they intercepted the planned American minister to the Dutch Republic, Henry Laurens. Yet in vain, for in December 1780 the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War broke out when the British declared war nonetheless.
Rendorp had previously served as a schepen since 1756 and a commissaris voor kleine zaken (petty magistrate) from 1757 when he was elected to his first (of many) terms as an 2
Amsterdam burgemeester in 1781. Like many other regents of the States Party, he opposed the stadtholder's tutor, Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who held a sinister hold over the stadtholder according to the Acte van Consulentschap. Rendorp petitioned the stadtholder in April 1781 on behalf of the Amsterdam city administration, requesting the Duke's removal from the Dutch government. The stadtholder became enraged as a result, and Rendorp lost a lot of support from the public because of his lack of moral bravery in the face of this confrontation.
Rendorp welcomed Joseph II, the newly appointed Austrian emperor and sovereign of the Austrian Netherlands, when he paid an undetected visit to Amsterdam that same year. wherein he talked on a variety of contemporary political topics, including as the Scheldt's closure to shipping, which was a major concern for Amsterdam at the time, and the Barrier Treaty, which would soon put the emperor and the Republic at odds. Joseph stressed the importance of achieving peace with Great Britain as soon as possible and suggested using the Sardinian consul Triquetti as a go-between. This attempt at private diplomacy was fruitless as the emperor made the identical proposition to the French envoy, de la Vauguyon, who promptly put an end to the peace feelers. Later, Rendorp attempted unofficial peace talks with former envoy Yorke and England secret agent Paul Wentworth, but these attempts also ended in failure.
Rendorp did not clearly identify as a Patriottentijd partisan. In addition to the "democratic" faction of the Patriots, he opposed the stadtholder. With his reelection as burgemeester in 1786, he made an effort to suppress that faction, believing that the Patriot Revolt had already progressed sufficiently and that the States Party's objectives had already been fulfilled by the stadtholder's diminishing authority. He was frequently the target of criticism
in the Patriot press, including the Post van den Neder-Rhijn, due to his "moderate" posture. As an Amsterdam magistrate, he had the authority to respond immediately. In 1785, he personally fined and even imprisoned a number of journalists and publishers for publishing defamatory articles about him.
In the 1787 Burgemeester election, Hendrik Daniëlsz Hooft, a Patriot, defeated Rendorp. As a result, he was forced to watch from the sidelines while Colonel Isaac van Goudoever led the uprisings that resulted in the fall of the Amsterdam city government in April 1787. His house was among the Orangists' that the Patriots plundered when the Bijltjesoproer broke out at the end of May 1787.
With the Prussian incursion into Holland and the collapse of Amsterdam on October 10, 1787, Rendorp was re-admitted into the "rehabilitated" municipal administration. In 1789, 1790, and 1792—the year of his passing—he was once more elected.
== Activities ==
Dealing with the Regt of the Jagt (1771), Dedicated to the Prince of Orange
Over de Militaire Jurisdictie (1775)
Memoriën, dienende tot opheldering van het Gebeurde, geduurende den laatsten Engelschen oorlog (1792)
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Staat der generale Nederlandsche O.I. Compagnie, behelz. Rapporten van de HH. G.J. Doys, baron van der Does Mr. P.H. van de Wall, Mr. J. Rendorp en Mr. H. van Straalen, alsmede nader Rapport en Bijdragen (1792)
== Arts patronage ==
Rendorp was an art collector, as was his spouse. He had 10 flower still lifes by Jan van Huysum, Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Emanuel de Witte, and Gabriël Metsu among his many works. Artists such as Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, and Jean-Étienne Liotard depicted him and his wife. He made an investment in Joannes de Mol's porcelain business in 1779, and he eventually purchased it fully in 1782. In 1761, he acquired the Herengracht home of Mattheus Lestevenon, and thereafter possessed Singel No. 292.
== Bibliography and notes ==
Notes:
=== Citations ===
== Sources ==
Aa, A.J. van der (1874). "Mr. Joachim Rendorp, in: Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 16". Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren, pp. 240-241 (in Dutch). obtained on May 5, 2018.
Koppius (1937). In P.J. Blok and P.C. Molhuysen (eds.), "Rendorp, Mr. J. in Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 10". Nederlandse Letteren digitale bibliotheek (in Dutch), pp. 799-801. obtained on May 5, 2018.
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