"Tandjong East and Tandjong West, near Jakarta (Batavia) 1819" 1819

QUIRIJN MAURITS RUDOLPH VERHUELL

InkPaperPencilWatercolour
39 ⨯ 56 cm
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• About the artwork
  QUIRIJN MAURITS RUDOLPH VERHUELL (1787-1860)
  
  "Tandjong East and Tandjong West, near Jakarta (Batavia) 1819"
  
  Pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 39 x 56.6 cm
  
  Note:
  
  VerHuell, a naval officer, author and accomplished draughtsman and watercolourist, went to Indonesia in 1816 where he sailed all over the archipelago on board
  the Admiraal Evertzen. After an eventful two years during which he saw active service
  
  in Celebes and the Moluccas, VerHuell returned to Batavia in 1818. While waiting for his ship to be prepared for the return journey to Holland, he made several painting trips to Bogor and the environs of Batavia. VerHuell’s appreciation of the delights
  of the Javanese landscape is evocatively described in his diary; below is an excerpt pertaining to the present watercolour:
  
  While I was walking with my friend Baud in this lovely countryside to find a pictorial viewpoint under this pure sky, and under the impression of the entirety and freshness of nature, we came to the high banks of the fast-flowing river Tjilibong. Delighted, I sat down and took out my drawing pencil. The river flowed at my feet and meandered around a hill which was covered in trees and palms. On the hill was the manor house of Tanjong East and opposite on the high banks of the river the beautiful house Tandjong West surrounded by a forest of coconut trees with many straight trunks crowned by beautiful leaves. At the foot of these hills lay a pretty green meadow where cows grazed and some black tamarind trees, and in the foreground, lay the richest nature one can imagine.
  
  He left Indonesia in 1819, but his leaking ship the Admiraal Evertzen came to grief at Diego Garcia. Huell lost most of his drawings and was also blamed for the disaster, being the captain on board. Back in Holland, he worked his remaining sketches into finished drawings and watercolours. Most of his watercolours of Indonesia now are in the collection of the Prins Hendrik Maritime Museum in Rotterdam, donated by VerHuell’s son to the museum in 1895.
• About the artist

  Quirijn Maurits Rudolph Ver Huell (also Verhuell or VerHuell, Zutphen 11 September 1787 - Arnhem 10 May 1860) was a Dutch naval officer, writer, painter, watercolorist and entomologist.

  He joined the navy and rose from rank to rank in French and later Dutch service. Under his uncle Carel Hendrik Ver Huell he fought against the English. Shortly after his appointment he received the Military Order of William 3rd class, for his "conduct during the campaign against the insurgents in the Moluccas".

  In 1839 he became director and commander of the Navy in the main department of the Meuse. From 1834 to 1850 he was director of the Navy in Rotterdam.

  After that time he lived without office in Arnhem, where he died on May 10, 1860. In 1821 he married Mrs. Christina Louisa Johanna Hester de Vaynes van Brakell (1796-1863), watercolourist, member of the De Vaynes van Brakell family. The draftsman Alexander Ver Huell is their son.

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