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Portrait of William IV
Also titled Portret van Willem IV
Jacques-André-Joseph Aved (1702–1766)
1751
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 107.5 cm x width 67.5 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
Stadtholder William IV is shown as Captain-General and Admiral-General of the Dutch Republic. He wears the decorations of the Order of the Garter. Despite all the trappings of power, the French painter Aved did not succeed in depicting him as an impressive ruler. The portrait was finished in the year that the prince died.
