Prinz) Raden Saleh Ben Jaggia (Java Art for Sale at Auction

Figure painter, Painter, Portrait painter, Landscape painter, Lithographer, Water colorist, b. 1811 - d. 1880

Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (Raden Saleh Syarif Bustaman; 1807 – 23 April 1880) was a pioneering Indonesian Romantic painter of Arab-Javanese ethnicity. He was considered to be the first "modern" artist from Indonesia (then 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.