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Frederick Henry, his Consort Amalia of Solms, and their Three Youngest Daughters
Also titled Frederik Hendrik en zijn vrouw Amalia van Solms en hun drie jongste dochters
Gerard van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592–1656)
c. 1647
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 5 cm (support incl. frame)
- 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
Amalia commissioned this painting for the palace of Huis ten Bosch. It hung next to portraits of her eldest, already married children, William II and his English bride, Mary, and Louise Henriette and Frederick William I of Brandenburg. Judicious marriages of state consolidated the position of the House of Orange among the other European royal families. Their three youngest daughters would marry German princes. Through them, Amalia’s love of Asian luxury was disseminated throughout Europe.
