"Tandjong East et Tandjong West, près de Jakarta (Batavia) 1819 (petit) 1819

QUIRIJN MAURITS RUDOLPH VERHUELL

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  QUIRIJN MAURITS RUDOLPH VERHUELL (1787-1860)
  
  "Tandjong East and Tandjong West, near Jakarta (Batavia) 1819"
  
  Pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 24 X 35cm
  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.
• Sur l'artiste

  Quirijn Maurits Rudolph Ver Huell (également Verhuell ou VerHuell, Zutphen 11 septembre 1787 - Arnhem 10 mai 1860) était un officier de marine néerlandais, écrivain, peintre, aquarelliste et entomologiste.

  Il rejoint la marine et monte de grade en grade dans le service français puis néerlandais. Sous son oncle Carel Hendrik Ver Huell, il a combattu les Anglais. Peu de temps après sa nomination, il reçut l'Ordre militaire de Guillaume de 3e classe, pour sa "conduite pendant la campagne contre les insurgés aux Moluques".

  En 1839, il devient directeur et commandant de la Marine dans le département principal de la Meuse. De 1834 à 1850, il est directeur de la Marine à Rotterdam.

  Après cette période, il vécut sans bureau à Arnhem, où il mourut le 10 mai 1860. En 1821, il épouse Mme Christina Louisa Johanna Hester de Vaynes van Brakell (1796-1863), aquarelliste, membre de la famille De Vaynes van Brakell. Le dessinateur Alexander Ver Huell est leur fils.

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