Abram Salm Art for Sale at Auction

Painter, Landscape painter

Abraham Salm clearly loved the Indonesian landscape and made numerous paintings depicting the enticing sights of Eastern Java. As a merchant in Surabaja and later on an owner of a tabacco plantation in Malang, he stayed for approximately twenty-nine years in Indonesia. During this time he made sketches and, although little is known about his artistic process, it has been suggested by Jan Veth he later developed his sketches as oil paintings in The Netherlands. In the second half of the nineteenth century his paintings of exotic Indonesia became popular via the prints made by Johan Conrad Greive Jr. and commissioned by influential art dealer Frans Buffa & Zonen.