The Academy and the Belgian Influence Batavia serves as the starting point for André Victor Leonard Broedelet. The year 1872 marks his arrival into a world that would soon lead him to the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Between 1889 and 1895, he moves through the halls of this institution, absorbing the technical foundations of Dutch painting. The path shifts toward Antwerp, where he spends a year under the direct guidance of Charle…