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Mary Stuart and William II
Also titled Maria Stuart en Willem II
Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp, 1599–1641)
1641
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 180 cm x width 132.2 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
Mary and William were mere children when they married: she was nine, he fourteen. Quite unusually she stands on the left due to her higher status – Mary was a king’s daughter, William the son of a stadholder and prince. Mary’s wedding ring highlights the bond between Holland and England, which was cemented with this marriage. She also wears a diamond brooch, another gift from William.
