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Adriaan Valckenier (1737-1741)
The highest-ranking Dutch East India Company (VOC) official in Asia was the governor-general. He presided in the Castle of Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia), a fort built by the Dutch. The assembly hall in the Castle of Batavia was the centre of Dutch power in Asia. The walls were hung with portraits of all of the governors-general. Most of the 18th-century examples shown here were painted in Asia,…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- http://iconclass.org/45C212
- Valckenier, Adriaan
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/61B2
- http://iconclass.org/45C212
- Valckenier, Adriaan
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1737
- 1737
Place-Time
- second quarter 18th century
Provenance
- Commissioned by the sitter, a Gouverneur-Generaal, for the Landvoogd-Galerij;{De Loos-Haaxman 1941, p. 159.} transferred from the Landvoogd-Galerij, Paleis Rijswijk, Weltevreden (Jakarta), to the museum, 1950
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8552
- SK-A-3778
Extent
- height 102.5 cm
- width 85.5 cm
Format
- brass (alloy)
- oil paint (paint)
- Brass
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
- collectie: Gouverneurs-generaal serie
Year
- 1737
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:51.141Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:56.577Z