General Daendels Taking Leave of Lieutenant-Colonel Krayenhoff

• General Daendels Taking Leave of Lieutenant Colonel Krayenhoff
• General Daendels Taking Leave of Lieutenant-Colonel Krayenhoff
• General Daendels Taking Leave in Maarssen of Lieutenant Colonel C.R.T. Krayenhoff, whom he was Despatching to Amsterdam to Help Depose the City Government, 18 January 1795

General Daendels Taking Leave in Maarssen of Lieutenant Colonel C.R.T. Krayenhoff, whom he was Despatching to Amsterdam to Help Depose the City Government, 18 January 1795

SK-A-2231

signature and date: ‘E. van Drielst pinx A. de Lelie Aº 1795.’

The French army, which had invaded the Netherlands at the request of the Dutch Patriots, had already reached Utrecht when Daendels, a Dutch general in French service, sent Krayenhoff to Amsterdam. He was to ask the city council to step aside so that a new –Patriot –government could be installed before the French arrived. The change of authority took place in Amsterdam that same evening, 18 January 1795.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

• painter: Adriaan de Lelie (mentioned on object)
• painter: Egbert van Drielst (mentioned on object)

1795

olieverf op paneel

height 45 cm x width 60 cm

purchase 1906-05

Public domain

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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