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Museum Voorlinden (Dutch pronunciation: [myˈzeːjʏɱ ˈʋoːrlɪndə(n)]) is an art museum in Wassenaar in the Netherlands. [3] It was founded and is privately owned by Joop van Caldenborgh. [3] It was opened on 10 September 2016 by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. [2]
Active painters are therefore underrepresented, while more than half of the artists are baroque painters of the 17th century, roughly corresponding to the Dutch Golden Age. The names of older artists often have many different spellings; the preferred spelling is used as listed in the Netherlands Institute for Art History [4] database, but ...
Willem van Aelst (16 May 1627 – buried 22 May 1683) [1] was a Dutch Golden Age artist who specialized in still-life painting with flowers or game. Biography [ edit ]
Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar is a 1669 oil painting by Dutch artist Willem Kalf, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana.It is a sumptuous still life displaying the sort of costly wares that flowed through the Netherlands during its heyday as a trade center.
Willem-Alexander (Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm aːlɛkˈsɑndər]; Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands, reigning since 30 April 2013. Willem-Alexander was born in Utrecht during the reign of his maternal grandmother, Queen Juliana , as the eldest child of Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus .
The recipient of endless awards and decorations, he counted among his clients King Friedrich-Wilhelm IV of Prussia, Tsar Alexander II, and King Willem II of the Netherlands. His brothers were both successful artists, the first as a painter of marine subjects and river scenes, the second as a landscapist.
The small gallery space soon proved to be too small, however, and in 1820, the Mauritshuis was bought by the Dutch state for the purpose of housing the Royal Cabinet of Paintings. [10] In 1822, the Mauritshuis was opened to the public and housed the Royal Cabinet of Paintings and the Royal Cabinet of Rarities.
Willem Claeszoon Heda (17th century): Breakfast with a Crab. Dutch painters, especially in the northern provinces, tried to evoke emotions in the spectator by letting the person be a bystander to a scene of profound intimacy. Portrait painting thrived in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Many portraits were commissioned by wealthy ...