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Johan Nieuhof
Johan Nieuhof (22 July 1618 in Uelsen – 8 October 1672 in Madagascar) was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. He wrote An embassy from the East-India Company containing the written account of this journey.
Biography.
Johan Nieuhof was born in Uelsen, a town in the
of the Chinese life. Johan Nieuhof and his successors not only enhanced European knowledge about China, the pictures also gave an impetus to the growth of Chinoiserie in the arts. Many subsequent artists and architects based their work on Nieuhof's pictures.
Bibliography.
- Blussé, L. & R. Falkenburg (1987) "Johan Nieuwhofs beelden van een Chinareis, 1655-1657". Middelburg.
- Sun, Jing (2013) "The illusion of verisimilitude: Johan Nieuhof’s images of China", PhD dissertation Leiden