Sunday, July 19, 2026
Retracing steps through the Rijksmuseum.
Dirck van Delen, 1645
The tomb of William of Orange became a much-visited attraction from the moment it was completed in 1621. People like this family – a father, mother and two sons, all dressed in restrained, decorous black – even had painters immortalize them standing next to the monument as evidence of their solidarity with the ‘Father of the Fatherland’.
Dirck van Delen, 1630 - 1632
This canvas together with six other paintings formed the wall decoration of a room in a palace. The distinguished people in this group are, from left to right: Prince Frederick Henry of Orange, stadholder of Holland, and four other provinces; his wife Amalia of Solms; his cousin Ernest Casimir of Nassau, stadholder of Friesland and Groningen; and Duke Christian of Brunswick. Frederick Henry...
Martinus Nellius, 1669 - 1719
Virtually nothing is known about the painter Martinus Nellius, only a few works by whom have been preserved. He must have been active in Leiden and The Hague and, like his contemporary Adriaen Coorte, specialized in still lifes with simple compositions featuring only a few objects or fruits rendered with a great eye for detail.
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