Barend Chapon was a son of Juda Chapon and Jeanette Voorzanger. He married Mietje Zilverberg in 1908. He was a journalist and an art historian. After completing the higher secondary school, he worked briefly for a relative in Germany. In 1910 he became a deputy manager at the firm L.B. Schaap, a stockbroker in Amsterdam. In 1926 he became an independent agent. Barend Chapon was a member of the soc…