Rijksmuseum

Stadhouder prins Willem v

Date

1789

Medium

parchment (animal material), pastel (crayon)

Institution

Rijksmuseum

Under pressure from fierce opposition to his rule, Stadtholder William V and his family fled The Hague in 1785. They returned two years later and the stadtholder’s authority was restored. This provided the occasion to commission a series of portraits of the members of his family from the portraitist Tischbein. The artist produced a fashionable group of oval portraits in pastel. The giltwood frames were made by the Hague framemaker Hendrik Ebbens.

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