The Great Postal Route near Rejapolah by Auguste Antoine Joseph Payen Rijksmuseum Amsterdam SK-C-1718

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 Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

and died in Tournai. His father, Antoine Payen the Elder, was an architect. Payen was commissioned by Dutch King

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to create a series of paintings of the landscape of the Dutch East Indies. One of these works, ''The Great Postal Route near Rejapolah'', painted in 1828, hangs in the Rijksmuseum in

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. While in the Dutch East Indies in 1819, Payen met an eight-year-old

Raden Saleh Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman ( ar, ; ', jv, ꦫꦢꦺꦤ꧀ꦱꦭꦺꦃꦯ꦳ꦫꦶꦥ꦳꧀ꦨꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦩꦤ꧀; EYD: ''Raden Saleh Syarif Bustaman''; 1811 – 23 April 1880) was a pioneering Indonesian Romantic painter of Arab- Javan ...

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 {{Belgium-painter-stub