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The Submission of Prince Dipo Negoro to General De Kock
is an
oil painting
on
canvas
painted by
Nicolaas Pieneman
between 1830 and 1835. It depicts General
Hendrik Merkus de Kock
's capture of Prince
Diponegoro
in 1830, which signaled the end of the
Java War
(1825–1830). The painting, commissioned by De Kock, shows Diponegoro abandoning his followers and submitting peacefully, in what the art historian Werner Krauss describes as recognition that "de Kock's stern action is for the best of the
Javanese
".
Painting:
Nicolaas Pieneman
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