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The Princess of Orange Visiting the Work-shop of Bartholomeus van der Helst
Also titled De prinses van Oranje bezoekt het atelier van Bartholomeus van der Helst
Hendrik Jacobus Scholten (Amsterdam, 1824–1907)
c. 1850 - c. 1870
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 46 cm x width 59 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Mary Stuart, the widow of Stadtholder William II, looks at her portrait in the workshop of the 17th-century painter Van der Helst. In the background is his unfinished monumental painting Banquet of the Civic Guard, in which the militiamen celebrate the end of the Eighty Years’ War. For his likeness of the princess, Scholten relied on an existing portrait, also by Van der Helst. Scholten thus demonstrated his knowledge of both 17th-century Dutch painting and national history.
