Portrait of Frederick Hendrick, Prince of Orange-Nassau

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This portrait was painted for the city council of Delft as the companion piece to Van Miereveld's portrait of Prince Maurice, commissioned three years earlier. Frederick Hendrick (1584-1647) was Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland from 1625 to 1647. He was the youngest child of William the Silent, born at Delft about six months before his father's assassination (July 10, 1584).

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Portrait of Frederick Hendrick, Prince of Orange-Nassau

About the Artist

Michiel Jansz. van Miereveld

1567 – 1641

Miereveld or Mierevelt, Dutch portrait painter, active mainly in his native Delft. In 1625 in The Hague he became Painter of the Princes of Orange. His portraits are mostly small in size, often busts only. They are dull and repetitive, but meticulously crafted and of great value as historical records. He was highly successful and enormously prolific. It is reported that Miereveld himself estimated that he made about 10.000 portraits.

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