Portrait of Willem I (1533-84), Prince of Orange, called William the Silent

Portrait of Willem I (1533-84), Prince of Orange, called William the Silent

SK-A-253

Portret van Willem I, prins van Oranje, genaamd Willem de Zwijger. Kniestuk, staand, de handen in de mantel gestoken.

• signature, centre right: ‘Faciem huius ad principale Cornely / de Vischer fecit A. a Miereveld.’
• inscription, centre right, on the piece of paper: ‘Ζεύ μὴ λάθοι σε τώνδ᾽ ὂς αἲτιος ϰαϰών’

• painter: workshop of Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt
• painter: Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt [rejected attribution]

c. 1632

oil on canvas

• support: height 112.5 cm x width 88.5 cm
• sight size: height 110 cm x width 85.5 cm

1533 - 1584

Public domain

? Commissioned by the Admiralty of the Maas, Rotterdam, where it was first recorded in the Charter Room, 7 April 1800;{Letter, Schilger, 1800; see Moes/Van Biema 1909, p. 27.} transferred to the museum, May 1800; on loan to the Oranje-Nassau Museum, The Hague, 1926-32; on loan to Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, since 1959

• Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).
• De inrichting van de Nationale Konst-Gallery in het openingsjaar 1800, uit: Oud Holland, 95, 1981, 4, pagina pp. 170-227 - p. 187, 189, afb. 28(zie: http://www.jstor.org/stable/42711068)

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