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Auguste Antoine Joseph Payen (12 November 1792 – 18 January 1853), also known as Antoine Payen the Younger, was a Belgian painter and naturalist. He was born in
Auguste Antoine Joseph Payen (12 November 1792 – 18 January 1853), also known as Antoine Payen the Younger, was a Belgian painter and naturalist. He was born in Brussels
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and died in Tournai
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. His father, Antoine Payen the Elder, was an architect.
Payen was commissioned by Dutch King William I William I may refer to:
Kings
* William the Conqueror (–1087), also known as William I, King of England
* William I of Sicily (died 1166)
* William I of Scotland (died 1214), known as William the Lion
* William I of the Netherlands and Luxembour ...
to create a series of paintings of the landscape of the Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...
. One of these works, ''The Great Postal Route near Rejapolah'', painted in 1828, hangs in the Rijksmuseum
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in Amsterdam
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.
While in the Dutch East Indies in 1819, Payen met an eight-year-old Raden Saleh
Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (, EYD: ; , DIN: ; 1811 – 23 April 1880) was a pioneering Romantic painter from the Dutch East Indies of Arab- Javanese ethnicity. He was considered to be the first "modern" artist from Indonesia (then the Dutc ...
and, recognizing his talent for drawing, became Saleh's first mentor. Saleh would follow Payen to Europe three years after Payen's departure from Java in 1826.
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* (English translation: Antoine Payen: East Indian Painter: Life and Writings of a 19th Century Artist). By Marie-Odette Scalliet. The Netherlands: Leyde, Pays-Bas, Research School CNWS, December 1995. . 1792 births 1853 deaths Belgian naturalists 19th-century naturalists Belgian painters Artists from Brussels Dutch painters {{Belgium-painter-stub