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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