Portrait of William I, King of the Netherlands
Also titled Portret van Willem I, koning der Nederlanden
Joseph Paelinck (Oostakker, 1781–1839)
1819
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 227 cm x width 155.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen
- 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
After the Battle of Waterloo, William Frederick, prince of Orange-Nassau and son of Stadholder William V, was inaugurated as King William I in 1815. Here he wears the full-dress uniform of a general, with the royal ermine cloak over it. He points to a map of Java in what was then the Dutch East Indies, where the portrait came to hang in the governor’s palace in 1821.
