Portrait of the Stadholder Frederik Hendrik (1584-1647), Prince of Orange
c. 1670
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
100.5; 124.5
About this artwork
…; ? first recorded in the collection of Willem V, and listed in the ‘roode kamer’ in the Stadhouderlijk Hof, The Hague, 1763-4 (‘no. 53 Een dito portrait van prins Frederik Hendrik, een kniestuck, door of in de manier van A. van Dijk in dito [zwarte] lijst Hoogte 4 v ½ d. Breete 3 v 3 d [126.9 x 102.1 cm]’);{S.W.A. Drossaers and T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, _Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en daarmee gelijk te stellen stukken 1567-1795_, 3 vols., The Hague 1974-76, I...
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck · 1599–1641
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who revolutionized portrait painting and became the most influential court painter in 17th-century England. Born in Antwerp as the seventh of twelve children to a prosperous silk merchant, van Dyck displayed extraordinary artistic talent from childhood. He trained under Hendrick van Balen before joining Peter Paul Rubens's workshop as a...