 He opened the first albumen print processing shop in Batavia.In 1862, the General Secretary of East Indies Alexis Loudon invited van Kinsbergen to join the government mission to Siam (present day Thailand) in February 1862 to cover the 1860 Treaty of Friendship, Trade and Navigation between the Netherlands and Siam.It was van Kinsbergen's first government assignment and he used the occasion to capture a number of curiosities in the country.