Josias Cornelis Rappard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josias Cornelis Rappard

military officer and painter in the Dutch East Indies

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1824

Place of Birth: Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 17-May-1898

Profession: military officer, painter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Josias Cornelis Rappard (April 24, 1824, Nijmegen – May 17, 1898, Leiden) was a Dutch soldier and artist.
Some of his paintings were made into lithographs and illustrations. Rappard's father was Anthony (Antonij) Rappard (1785–1851) and his mother Cornelia Arnolda Josina de Villeneuve (1792–1860).
In 1851 he married in Batavia Cornelia Nicolina Tromp (1831–1893), they had eight children.
Rappard was a colonel in the infantry of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.
He produced many paintings and drawings of life in Dutch East Indies. After his return to the Netherlands, he continued to work on his paintings of the Indies.
The Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam holds many lithographs made in the years 1882–1889 form Rappard's watercolors of Rappard.