Born 1813 in Jutphaas near Utrecht, died 1879 in Celje. He was a pupil of Cornelis Johannes de Bruyn, a painter of fruit and flower still lifes in Amsterdam. In Utrecht he completed the illustrations for Jan Kops’ book Flora Batava, which had been begun by G. J. J. van Os. The old literature mentions Hulstijn’s departure for Trieste in 1848, but this has not been proved. He painted for aristocratic families in Rimske Toplice and Lemberg in Slovenia. The Pokrajinski muzej in Celje holds five signed works from the period 1847–1860, one picture was sold at the 578th auction of the Dorotheum in Vienna in 1967 (28 Nov.–1 Dec.), No. 116.
Lit.: Andrej Ujčič, O delu in bivanju slikarja C. J. van Hulstijna pri nas, ČZN, 2, n. v., 1966, pp. 192-198; Peter A. Scheen, Lexicon nederlandse beeldende Kunstenaars: 1750-1950, s’Gravenhage 1969, p. 529.