Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Portrait of Willem III, Prince of Orange, King of England and Stadtholder
Also titled Portret van Willem III, prins van Oranje, koning van Engeland en stadhouder
Godfried Schalcken (Made, 1643–1706)
c. 1692 - c. 1697
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 76.5 cm x width 65 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 striking painting is a portrait of a ruler lit only by the flame of a candle. The candle has a symbolic meaning. It serves others with its light, while burning itself out. In other words, self-denial is a noble virtue. William wears a suit of armour with an ermine cloak around his neck as a sign of royalty.
