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Portrait of Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens, Governor of the Cape Colony and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Also titled Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens (1762-1838). Gouverneur van de Kaapkolonie en gouverneur-generaal van Nederlands Oost Indië
Jan Willem Pieneman (Abcoude, 1779–1853)
1815 - 1838
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- W.M. Janssens-Arriëns Bequest, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
J.W. Janssens, by J.W. Pieneman (1789-1853). J.W. Janssens was appointed governor of Cape Colony in 1802. In 1806 he was forced to hand over the territory to the British. This was the end of Dutch rule in the south of Africa.
