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Raden Saleh

1811 - 1880

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Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (Javanese: ꦫꦢꦺꦤ꧀ꦱꦭꦺꦃꦯ꦳ꦫꦶꦥ꦳꧀ꦨꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦩꦤ꧀, EYD: Raden Saleh Syarif Bustaman; Arabic: رادين صالح شريف بوستامن, DIN: Rādīn Ṣāliḥ Šarīf Būstāman; 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. He also expressed his cultural roots and inventiveness in his work. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raden Saleh is the 974th most popular painter (up from 977th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Indonesia (up from 27th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indonesian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Raden Saleh ranks 974 out of 2,023. Before him are Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Carlo Cignani, Karel Dujardin, and Romaine Brooks. After him are Max Slevogt, Pablo Gargallo, Cornelis Engebrechtsz., Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, and Dmitry Levitzky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Raden Saleh ranks 36. Before him are Édouard René de Laboulaye, Sengge Rinchen, Karl Gutzkow, Joseph Cafasso, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, and Edward Dickinson Baker. After him are Carlo Matteucci, Karel Jaromír Erben, Peter Julian Eymard, Horace Greeley, Émilie de Villeneuve, and Sakuma Shōzan. Among people deceased in 1880, Raden Saleh ranks 26. Before him are Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, John Sutter, Arnold Ruge, Constantin Hansen, Oliver Winchester, and Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias. After him are August Karl von Goeben, Jules Favre, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Friedrich Bayer, and Lucretia Mott.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Raden Saleh ranks 26 out of 158. Before him are Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925), Dharmakirti (700), George Uhlenbeck (1900), Lil Dagover (1887), Hendrik Brouwer (1581), and Adam Malik (1917). After him are Hella Haasse (1918), Tan Malaka (1897), Sutan Sjahrir (1909), Cut Nyak Dhien (1850), Iskandar Muda (1583), and Abdul Haris Nasution (1918).

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Among PAINTERS In Indonesia

Among painters born in Indonesia, Raden Saleh ranks 2. Before him are Jan Toorop (1858).

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