# Portrait of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba

- Date: 1600 - 1699
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 49 cm x width 38 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-18--f2421f4961a8ea9a735619f3d25152cc)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/75c7cb0060cfb52ee56803886177214b.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.