# Portrait of William I, King of the Netherlands

- By: Joseph Paelinck (Oostakker, 1781–1839)
- Date: 1819
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 227 cm x width 155.5 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-1460--475e80f783c46edc9d16e2dc7fbba58b)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/DDRQN/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.