1765841 Batavian VOC chief merchant Pieter Cnoll and his family, 1665 (oil on canvas) by Coeman, Jacob (1651-76); 130?190.5 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; (add.info.: The Dutch East India company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries with an Asian capital at the port of Batavia, now Jakarta, on Java. Pieter Cnoll was the senior merchant who kept the accounts of the company in Asia, here with his half-Japanese wife Cornelia van Nijenroode, their children and local servants. ).