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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raden Saleh has received more than 315,905 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Raden Saleh is the 977th most popular painter (down from 937th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Indonesia (down from 25th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indonesian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Raden Saleh ranks 977 out of 2,023. Before him are Ambrosius Holbein, Will Sampson, James Turrell, Gaspar Becerra, Aleksander Orłowski, and Philip de Koninck. After him are David Teniers the Elder, Roger Fry, Paul Gustav Fischer, Toyen, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, and Frans van Mieris the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Raden Saleh ranks 34. Before him are Édouard René de Laboulaye, Giulia Grisi, Sengge Rinchen, Otto Hesse, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, and Mohammad Afzal Khan. After him are Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Karel Jaromír Erben, Karl Gutzkow, Émilie de Villeneuve, Joseph Cafasso, and Georg August Wallin. Among people deceased in 1880, Raden Saleh ranks 26. Before him are Arnold Ruge, Sunanda Kumariratana, James Craig Watson, Oliver Winchester, Friedrich Bayer, and Jules Favre. After him are Sanford Robinson Gifford, Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Robert Fortune, Constantin Hansen, Edwin Drake, and Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Raden Saleh ranks 27 out of 158. Before him are Ma'ruf Amin (1943), Anggun (1972), Lil Dagover (1887), Hendrik Brouwer (1581), Jusuf Kalla (1942), and Ki Hajar Dewantara (1889). After him are Hamengkubuwono IX (1912), Hella Haasse (1918), Adam Malik (1917), Cut Nyak Dhien (1850), Iskandar Muda (1583), and Tan Malaka (1897).

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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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