Johan Willem de Stürler

Johan Willem de Stürler
Kawahara Keiga: Trading post director Johan Willem de Stürler, 8 October 1825. Detail from "Big party".
Other nameJohan Willem de Sturler
Born(1774-12-07)December 7, 1774
Sittard
DiedJanuary 9, 1855(1855-01-09) (aged 80)
Paris
CommandsDirector of the Dutch trading post at Dejima, Nagasaki, Japan

Johan Willem de Stürler (also Johan Wilhelm de Sturler, Jean Guillaume de Sturler and Jean Guillaume de Stürler, Sittard, 7 December 1774 - Paris, 9 January 1855) was a Dutch colonel and director of the Dutch trading post at Dejima, Nagasaki, Japan.[1][2]

Biography

Johan Willem de Sturler was born into the Dutch nobility of the De Stürler family from Switzerland,[3] as a son of Johan Rudolf de Stürler (1723-1823) and Agnes Suzanne Soeterik (1746-1823). He had been a tax inspector before entering military service in the Dutch army as an artillery captain.[1] In 1797 de Sturler married Sybille Elisabeth van Biesen (1774-1807) at Tiel, the Netherlands, who gave him four children.[2] In 1815 he went with his family to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (present day Jakarta in Indonesia).

From 20 November 1823 up to 5 August 1826 he was director (Dutch: opperhoofd) of the Dutch trading post on the island Dejima at Nagasaki, Japan, as a successor to Jan Cock Blomhoff. In 1826 he participated in the tribute mission to the court of the Tokugawa shōgun in Edo (modern Tokyo) to reassure the ties between the shogunate and the opperhoofd. During the mission he was accompanied by the physician Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866). The travel from Dejima to Edo lasted almost two months. They were carried in palanquins for the most part over land.[4] De Sturler visited the Shogun at his palace in Edo in May 1826. In August 2026 he left the island and went back to Batavia. He died in Paris in 1855.

Role in art history

Sturler was instrumental in bringing work by Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) to Europe which had been commissioned by Jan Cock Blomhoff.[5][6] The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris still retains this collection.[7] At first Siebold did not want to pay Hokusai the full agreed price, but Stürler protested and paid in full.[8]

Literature

  • de Stürler, Adam Emanuel Carolus (1863). Généalogische aanteekeningen van de familie de Stürler (in Dutch). Roermond: J.J. Romen. OCLC 82525440. Page 70 scan on J.W. de Stürler, page 71 continued scan.

References

  1. ^ a b Nederland's Adelsboek 1905 (in Dutch). 's Gravenhage [The Hague]: Van Stockum & Zn. 1905. ISSN 0921-9021. OCLC 781336407. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  2. ^ a b "West-Europese adel. Johan Willem de Stürler (1774-1855)" [Western European nobility. Johan Willem de Stürler (1774-1855)]. genealogieonline.nl (in Dutch). Coret Genealogie.
  3. ^ De Sturler family on Dutch-language Wikipedia.
  4. ^ Siebold, Philip Franz von (2018) [1841]. Japan and the Japanese in the nineteenth century (reprint of the original ed.). Milwaukee (US): Franklin Classics Trade Press. pp. 84–87. ISBN 9780343840129.
  5. ^ "Hokusai's Commission from the Dutch East India Company". edwardluperart.com. January 12, 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2025..
  6. ^ Sandler, Mark H. (1996). "Review. Hokusai Paintings: Selected Essays by Gian Carlo Calza". The Journal of Japanese Studies. 22 (1). University of California Press: 159–163. JSTOR 133056.
  7. ^ "Hokusai à la rencontre de l'Occident [Images animées] : les peintures de la collection Sturler : conférence du 23 janvier 2018" [Hokusai Meets the West [Animated Images]: Paintings from the Sturler Collection : conference of 23 January 2018]. catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Paris: BnF Bibliothèque nationale de France. January 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2025., and "Johan Willem de Sturler (1774-1855)" (in French). BnF Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Masterpieces of Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde". Leiden: Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde. April 22, 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
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