Who painted “The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro”?

“The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro” was painted by Raden Saleh in 1857. Where to see it: Gedung Agung.

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Romanticism: Neoclassicism is cool and linear; Romanticism is turbulent and colourful. Realism, which followed, replaced drama with ordinary life.

Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (c. 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 Dutch East Indies), and his paintings corresponded with nineteenth-century romanticism which was popular in Europe at the time. Wikipedia

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