Lot Essay
C.R.A. van Bommel was born in Leiden in 1790 out of a family of very important textile industrialists. He was ordained as a priest and later enthroned as the bishop of Liège in 1829, just one year before the separation of Holland and Belgium. He became an important prelate in the ecclesiastical history of this part of Europe, actively interfering in wordly affairs, he died in 1852.