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Josias Cornelis Rappard (24 April 1824,
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De waterval bij Maros TMnr 3728-860.jpg, Lithograph of Bantimurung Waterfall in 1883–1889 based on a Josias Cornelis Rappard painting
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het huis van Raden Saleh in Menteng TMnr 3728-810.jpg, 1880s
Josias Rappard
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Josias Cornelis Rappard (24 April 1824, Nijmegen
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– 17 May 1898, Leiden
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) was a Dutch soldier and artist. Some of his paintings were made into lithograph
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s and illustrations. He spent time in the Dutch East Indies
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(Indonesia
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) and made artworks there.
Rappard's father was Anthony (Antonij) Rappard (1785–1851) and his mother was Cornelia Arnolda Josina de Villeneuve (1792–1860). In 1851 he married in Batavia to Cornelia Nicolina Tromp (1831–1893), they had eight children. Rappard was a colonel
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in the infantry
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of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
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. He produced many paintings and drawings of life in Dutch East Indies.
After his return to the Netherlands, he continued to work on his paintings of the Indies. The Royal Tropical Institute
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in Amsterdam
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holds many lithographs
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made in the years 1882–1889 form Rappard's watercolors of Rappard.
Gallery
lithograph
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Raden Saleh
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's residence (now Cikini Hospital
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)
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het buitenverblijf van de gouverneur-generaal in Cipanas TMnr 3728-814.jpg, Watercolor lithography
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of Cipanas Palace
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, residence of Dutch East Indies
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Governor-generals (1880)
File:Pieter Eberveld.JPG, Gedenkteken Pieter Erberveld in Batavia (Jakarta)
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De moskee en minaret in Karang Antu TMnr 3728-818.jpg, The great mosque of Bantam
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Grasveld met tijger en publiek rampokkan TMnr 3728-833.jpg, Tiger Fight (rampokan
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) on Java
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File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een kerk in Salatiga TMnr 3728-835.jpg, A church in Salatiga
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, Central Java
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Josias Rappard
Geheugenvannederland {{DEFAULTSORT:Rappard, Josias Cornelis 1824 births 1898 deaths Dutch colonels Dutch male painters Dutch painters People from Nijmegen 19th-century Dutch East Indies people Royal Netherlands East Indies Army personnel