1121302 The Arms of the Dutch East India Company and of the Town of Batavia, 1651 (oil on panel) by Becx, Jeronimus (fl.1649-58); 63?97 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (add.info.: The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) trading company flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries with an Asian capital at Batavia, now Jakarta, in Java. According to the inscription, the city of Jacatra (now Jakarta) was ???onquered on 30 May in the year 1619?? That same year Governor-General Jan Pietersz Coen renamed it Batavia and built a castle with dockyards, warehouses and offices. ).