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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4374206, member: 2844&quot;]As such, Asian-looking faces on antique Dutch (presumably) paintings do occur.</p><p>There were many relationships between Dutch East India Company employees of rank with Asian women. Because of their knowledge of both cultures and languages, the children born from these relationships were deemed essential for good relations with the local rulers in the colonies, especially during the early period.</p><p>To this day, many prominent Dutch families are descendants of these marriages and other relationships, including members of the Dutch royal family.</p><p><br /></p><p>An example, Simon van der Stel, governor of the Cape, who was part Indian. Portrait by Pieter van Anraedt:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]366059[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>He looks even more Asian in this detail of another painting, a copy of a lost original by Jan Weenix:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]366060[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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