Portrait of Isaac Jan Alexander Gogel 1811
by Mattheus Ignatius van Bree
Gogel was one of the architects of the 1798 constitution of the Batavian Republic. As minister of finance, he introduced a new tax system in 1805. He also initiated the founding of the Nationale Konstgallerij, the precursor of the Rijksmuseum, in 1798.
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- Courtesy of Rijksmuseum
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