Hannké

She painted stiff men in stiff uniforms so often that a friend once called her studio “the colonial wardrobe.” She liked the Dutch East Indies so much she moved there in 1907 and stayed until the heat drove her out. In her best-known canvas, *Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz, Gouverneur-generaal* (1909), the governor’s gold buttons catch the light like a row of medals he never earned. See it once and you’ll notice how she hid boredom in the whites of his eyes.