Quint Ondaatje

A physionotrace by Gilles-Louis Chrétien of Quint Ondaatje between 1793-1798

Pieter Philip Jurriaan Quint Ondaatje (born in Colombo, 18 June 1758 – died in Batavia, 30 April 1818) was an illustrious Dutch patriot and influential revolutionary politician at the end of the 18th century. Ondaatje is regarded as a pioneer of Dutch democracy.[1][2] When Utrecht was besieged by States army troops he allied himself with Rhinegrave von Salm,[3][4] entrusted with the defence Holland and Utrecht. At the end of 1787 he lived as refugee in Brussels and French Flanders. From 1795 he served the Batavian Republic and in 1806 the Kingdom of Holland. Up to the Hundred Days he worked in Paris.