Hendrik Swaters at Delftsche Schilderschool

 The Delftsche Schilderschool voor het Onderricht in Nijverheidsen en Versieringskunst (Delft School of Painting for Instruction in Industrial and Decorative Arts) was a private specialized vocational art and craft institution founded in 1910 in Delft, Netherlands. The above is an image of the founding class in the school in1910.  

The initial tuition fee for the Delftsche Schilderschool  in 1910 was 20 Dutch (guilders) gulden per month.  This 1910 tuition fee would equal approximately €317 or about $507 CAD in 2026. To put this in context, an unskilled urban labourer in the Netherlands earned roughly 300 to 400 guilders per year in 1910. A sum of 20 guilders represented nearly 2 to 3 weeks of full-time wages for a  such a working-class Netherlands citizen. In the Canadian post-secondary context of today, $507 CAD per month sums up to about $6,080 per year, which is not inconsistent for the 8-month or two-term tuition fees charged at the larger research and teaching-intensive public universities in Canada.

Below is a map of the people in the above image with the associated names. Hendrik Swaters is the fifth person in the index and corresponds to the third person from the left who is kneeling.