The artist is unknown
Wilhelm (Willem), Prince of Orange (1792–1849) – Crown Prince of the Dutch, eldest son and successor of King Wilhelm I, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke Luxembourg (1840–1849) Wilhelm II. In 1815 he commanded the Netherlands in the war against Napoleon, became famous in the battle of Katra-Bra and in the battle of Waterloo, in which he was wounded in the shoulder. February 9, 1816 married his beloved sister Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna (1795–1865). Compiled a first -class meeting of paintings by Western European artists, which in 1850 after the death of the king was sold at auction. The best paintings of the meeting by order of Nicholas I were selected f. AND. Bruni and purchased for the imperial Hermitage.
Depicted in the uniform of the Alexandrian Hussar Regiment with the orders of St. Andrew the First -Called (star on his chest) and St. George 2nd degree (cross on the cervical tape and star on the chest).
The iconographically defined Yu. G. Epatko. The portrait is depicted on the watercolors of Luigi Preusci “Library in the Anichkov Palace”, 1853 (Prematsi. With. 64. No. 39). In the description, it is called “a portrait of the King of the Netherlands, the husband of the Grand Duchess Anna Fedorovna” and hangs on the end wall of the library among the Russian relatives of the king: Paul I, Maria Fedorovna, Nicholas I and Alexandra Fedorovna. Grand Duke and Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolaevich (1818–1881, later Emperor Alexander II) could not be captured on the portrait, as he was the gentleman of the Order of St. George 4th degree (10.eleven.1850), and the portrait depicts the cavalier of the Order of St. George 2nd degree.
N. X. Unknown artist. SPb, 2012. With. 71.
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