Cornelis van Lanschot

Cornelis van Lanschot was a son of Adrianus Franciscus van Lanschot (1682-1731) and Elisabeth van den Hove (1684-1762), born in Loon op Zand in the province of Brabant in 1711. His father had set up a beer-brewing business in Loon op Zand, and after his death the business was taken over by Cornelis’s brother Lambertus.

Cornelis married Henrica Cecilia Henrici, a wealthy merchant’s daughter from Venlo, and they moved to 's-Hertogenbosch. In 's-Hertogenbosch, Cornelis was accepted into the guild of merchants and tinsmiths and became a specialist wholesaler and retailer in colonial goods, which he bought from the Dutch East India Company. In 1767, Cornelis moved to Antwerp and handed his well developed business to his Godefridus.