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Bust of William IV
Also titled Borstbeeld van Willem IV
Jan Baptist Xavery (Antwerp, 1697–1742)
1733
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 74 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This is a preparatory modello for a marble bust that Xavery made of the 22-year-old Prince William IV. Three years later, it was followed by a bust of Princess Anne of England, whom William IV married in 1734. Both marble busts were placed in the Oranjezaal (Orange Hall) at Huis ten Bosch, the royal couple’s residence near The Hague.
