Discover art collector, painting collector, commissioner (person who orders works) Frederik Hendrik (prins van Oranje)

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: Oranje, Frederik Hendrik prins van

Qualifications: art collector, painting collector, commissioner (person who orders works)

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school)

Born: Delft (city) 1584-01-29

Deceased: The Hague (city) 1647-03-14

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Only son from the marriage of William of Orange and Louise de Coligny; half-brother of prince Maurice. Married on 4 April 1625 with Amalia von Solms-Braunfels. Father of stadholder Willem II (who was married to Mary Stuart I); his daughter Albertine Agnes was married to the Great Elector in Berlin.

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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75 hits in RKDimages as provenance
2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
36 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Den Haag (stad) 1625 - 1647
In 1625 he succeeded his half-brother Maurits as stadholder.

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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 92, 141, 155, 297, 357
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 372, 394
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 23, p. 464-465
Keblusek/Zijlmans 1997
Van der Ploeg/Vermeeren/Broos 1997
Israel 1999 , p. 126-130
Lauterbach 2004 , passim
Jansen/Ekkart/Verhave 2011 , passim
Kolfin/Van der Veen et al. 2011 , passim
Volmert 2013 , p. 162-163, 171, 175-176, 196
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

H.E. van Gelder, 'Haagsche kunstverzamelingen voor 1990', Jaarboek Die Haghe 1942, p. 1-36
E. Duverger, 'Abraham van Diepenbeeck en Conzales Coques aan het werk voor de stadhouder Frederik Hendrik, prins van Oranje', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1972, p. 181-237
C. Vermeeren, 'De kunstzinnige aspiraties van een stedebedwinger: De schilderijenverzameling van stadhouder Frederik Hendrik (1584-1647) en zijn echtgenote Amalia van Solms (1602-1675)', Desipientia 4 (1997), no. 1, p. 4-13
O. Millar, 'The Hague. Frederik Hendrik of Orange and Amalia van Solms', The Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), p. 281-284 (review)
R. Tucker, ''His excellency at home'. Frederik Hendrik and the noble life at Huis Honselaardsdijk', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 51 (2000), p. 82-101
P. Vlaardingerbroek, 'De stadhouder, zijn secretaris en de architectuur. Jacob van Campen als ontwerper van het Huygenshuis en de hofarchitectuur onder Frederik Hendrik', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 51 (2000), p. 60-81
Th. von der Dunk, 'Oranjepaleizen rond Den Haag als toeristische trekpleisters. Deel 1: Leonhard Christoph Sturm en andere vreemdelingen in Honselaarsdijk', Jaarboek Die Haghe 2006, p. 22-68
Th. von der Dunk, 'Oranjepaleizen rond Den Haag als toeristische trekpleisters. Deel 2: Leonhard Christoph Sturm en andere vreemdelingen in Huis ter Nieuburch', Jaarboek Die Haghe 2007, p. 14-39
J. Giltaij, 'Adriaen van de Venne en de roem van Frederik Hendrik', Jaarboek Oranje-Nassau 2012, p. 90-99
R. Tucker, 'The politics of display at Honselaarsdijk', Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 65 (2015), p. 114-143

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Creation date: 2010-12-17; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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