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Portrait of the Baud family in their country house in Voorburg, 1831-1832. Baud 1789-1859) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1833 until 1836. The painter Raden Saleh is considered to be the first "modern" artist from Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies). He travelled to Europe to study painting, and became the first indigenous Indonesian to be initiated into Freemasonry. After 20 years in Europe he returned to the Dutch East Indies and worked as conservator for the colonial collection of government art, and acted as court painter to the Governors-General.