# Portrait of William II, King of the Netherlands

- By: Jan Adam Kruseman (Haarlem, 1804–1862)
- Date: 1839
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 109.5 cm x width 86 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-170--d0c81b0123cbdff13b8a9136bb21eaca)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/7511b3de0b491ca453c0761746d7416a.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This is a portrait of King William II in military uniform, but with a decidedly informal air. Accompanied by his hound, he poses casually in the dunes, which in the Romantic era was considered the quintessentially Dutch landscape. In 1848 –when revolutions were raging throughout Europe –William II renounced royal autocracy and the Netherlands became a parliamentary democracy.