Portrait of Stadholder William V (1748-1806). 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis). 덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague)

Portrait of Stadholder William V (1748-1806).

마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis).

덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague). 네덜란드(Netherland)

mauritshuis.nl

Johann Georg Ziesenis (1716~1776)

Portrait of Stadholder William V (1748-1806)

c. 1768 - 1769

Oil on canvas

141cm x 101cm

The founder of the Mauritshuis collection was Prince Willem V of Orange. At the age of eighteen he became stadholder of Holland, and one year later married the sixteen-year-old Wilhelmina of Prussia. Shortly after their wedding, the Danish painter Ziesenis painted some portraits of the young couple.

 

Willem V had a large collection of Dutch and Flemish masters from the Golden Age. But he also collected antiquities, coins, stones, fossils, books and even animals. His collection later formed the basis for several museum collections, including that of the Mauritshuis.

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