# Equestrian Portrait of Frederick Henry

- By: anonymous
- Date: in or after 1631
- Medium: tortoise shell, paint (coating), oil paint (paint)
- Classification: shield
- Dimensions: outer size: height 125 cm x width 111 cm x depth 34 cm (support incl. backboard)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/NG-NM-2970--e675db31e66bdc3ea83ff7954d37312f)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/49028ef6b74616879da582347e23ba63.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The capture of Den Bosch is chiefly due to the strategic brilliance and perseverance of the army’s commander, Frederick Henry. As a result, the war takes a new turn. Several years later the prince also seizes Venlo, Roermond, and Maastricht. Frederick Henry is often triumphantly depicted on horseback. But quite uniquely he is here portrayed as such on the shell of a South American giant tortoise: an indirect expression of the Netherlands as a world power.