Raden Saleh - Return

Return

The artist returned to Indonesia in 1851 after living in Europe for 20 years. Here, he worked as conservator for the colonial collection of government art. He continued painting portraits of the Javanese aristocracy, and many more landscape paintings. He died in 1880, after returning from a second stay in Europe.

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