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Catalog Number
2021.14.381
Description
A watercolor painting shows looking up at the second floor of the exterior of the Cappon House. The painting is done by Bruce McCombs.

Information from a Holland Sentinel article stated; 

Bruce McCombs retired from Hope College in 2021 after more than 50 years teaching art.  

McCombs, a Cleveland native, holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from Tulane University.  He started at Hope College in 1969. Over his five decades there, he taught courses in drawing, watercolor painting, printmaking and photography. 

Early in his career, McCombs focused on etching and printmaking. In the 1990s, he transitioned to photorealistic watercolors. 

At the time of his retirement from Hope, McCombs had works in the permanent collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art — among others. 
History
Cappon Family History Isaac Cappon was born in Zeeland, the Netherlands on 1-13-1830 to Johannes Cappon and Magdalena Kallewaard. By 1847 Cappon had settled in Rochester, NY. He would move to Holland, MI soon after. Cappon and business partner John Bertsch opened the Cappon and Bertsch Leather Company in Holland. It would grow to become the largest tannery operation in Michigan by the 1880s. Business was not the only area where Cappon proved successful. He was elected Holland's first mayor in 1867. Isaac Cappon married Catarina De Boe (1835-1887). They would have 11 children together: Magdalena Cornelia Cappon Debruyn (1855-1932); Cornelia M. Cappon (1856-1858); Elizabeth Marie Cappon (1858-1909); Johannes Jakob Cappon (1862-1931); Jacobus Marinus Cappon (1862-1862); Cornelia Cappon Brusse (1865-1936); Jacomina Cappon Kremers (1867-1939); Sarah Cappon (1870-1891); Isaac Cappon, Jr. (1872-1911); Sue Cappon Houtkamp (1874-1938); and, Abraham Lincoln Cappon (1877-1934). In 1874, Cappon and his family moved into their new home at 228 West Ninth Street. On October 26, 1891, Isaac Cappon married Jacoba De Kok when she was 23, Jacoba and Isaac Cappon had five children together: Ida Elizabeth Cappon Maulbetsch (1892-1992); Johanna Lavina Cappon (1894-1978); Sarah Edith Cappon McLean (1896-1975); Christene Helena Cappon DeVries (1898-1976); and, Franklin C Cappon (1900-1961). Issac Cappon died on January 23, 1902.