Ver Huell was born in Zutphen, the son of Everhart Alexander Ver-Huel, twice burgomaster of Doesburg, and Anna Aleida Staring.

He took part in the perilous journey of Batavian light craft from Dunkirk to Ambleteuse on 17–18 July 1805 during which he distinguished himself, leading to his promotion to midshipman first class.

The Resident, Johannes Rudolph van den Berg, his wife, three of his four children, and their governess, and 19 Dutch soldiers of the garrison, were killed.

Then the warship would land parties of soldiers and armed crew members (there were few marines present), and the corra-corras likewise would unload the auxiliary troops.

[16] Ver Huell was not personally present at this arguable atrocity, but later related this event in his memoir Herinneringen.

With a certain satisfaction he concluded that the insurgents that were still at large were so cowed by the Dutch terror, that they came in and surrendered, as did the remaining civilian population.

He thinks that this contributed to the desperate defense by the Saparuan rebels later in the year, and so proved counterproductive from the viewpoint of the Dutch colonial government.

He relates that, though she was released by Buyskes, after the Rear-Admiral had personally interviewed Pattimura, she chose to remain with her father to the end.

Martha Christina, who remained with her father till the last moment, was after the execution released to a local schoolmaster, but she absconded and spent time in the wilderness, living on whatever she could find, But she was recaptured and brought aboard the Evertsen where Ver Huell was amazed to meet her again.

[3] In the year after the campaign against the Moluccan insurgents Ver Huell spent most of his leisure time exploring the Indonesian archipel and its natural wonders.

[m] He had a large amount of free time, because the Admiraal Evertsen was showing its bad shape and had to be put in drydock repeatedly for urgent repairs.

A much more important name was that of Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, the founder of the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, who was amassing a large collection of specimens, intended for the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University.

It was this important cargo that was put aboard the Admiraal Evertsen when the ship was sent home to the Netherlands with the royal commissioners Elout and Buyskes.

[26] Rear-Admiral Buyskes, though only a passenger, began to interfere with Ver Huell's command, and ordered him to go to the isolated atoll of Diego Garcia.

The Pickering picked up the crew of the Admiraal Evertsen and first brought them ashore on Diego Garcia, at the French settlement of Pointe de l'Est.

[28] As it was unlikely that they would be picked up there by another ship (in view of the isolated location of the atoll) the Pickering then ferried the crew in two stages to Mauritius.

This took about six weeks to complete during which time Ver Huell again made a number of sketches and watercolors of the natural wonders of the atoll.

[29] The naval authorities then had Ver Huell court-martialed as the captain responsible for the loss of the Admiraal Evertsen, but he was acquitted.

When czar Nicholas I of Russia visited Rotterdam, he was made a knight 3rd class of the Order of Saint Vladimir.

This started even before he became acting captain of the Admiraal Evertsen when the ship traveled to Celebes, to take over from the British occupiers,[q] and re-establish relations with the king of Gowa, Tumenanga ri Katangka, and was entertained by that monarch; he also went hunting for butterflies and caught an Attacus atlas.

[32] As acting captain of the Admiraal Evertsen[r] he traveled to the Banda Islands in March 1817 to claim them again for the Netherlands after the British occupation.

[35] Ver Huell often illustrated works of famous naturalists, who sought him out for his knowledge, like Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel with whom he published Illustrationes piperacearum (1844) and Stirpes Surinamenses selectae (1851), the botanist Willem Hendrik de Vriese and the zoologist Jan van der Hoeven.

He also made many illustrations for the Flora Brasiliensis, edited by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius et al.[37] He also wrote a biography of his uncle Admiral Carel Hendrik Verhuell, and biographical articles about vice-admiral Hendrik Alexander Ruysch, lieutenant Pieter Bezemer[w] and captain-lieutenant H. Zwedenrijk Carp[x] in the journal Tijdschrift aan het Zeewezen gewijd.

[37] After he retired, he left Rotterdam, where he had been a member of the art societies Hierdoor tot Hooger and Arti sacrum vereenigd, and an elder in the Walloon church, and moved to Arnhem, where he could devote himself full-time to his scientific studies and other pastimes.