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Portrait of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba
Also titled Portret van Fernando Alvarez de Toledo (1507-1582), hertog van Alva
1600 - 1699
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 49 cm x width 38 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
Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva. Copy after Willem Key, c. 1580. The successful general, the Duke of Alva (1507-1582), was dispatched by the Spanish king to the Netherlands to suppress the insurrection. In 1567 he was appointed governor. His repressive measures led to a mass exodus. From across the frontier groups tried to undermine Spanish authority by piracy and guerrilla warfare.
