Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11433

    Portrait of William Charles Henry Frisco, Prince of Orange

    Date
    1759
    Sitter
    Creator
    Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780, Dutch) , Engraver
    Aert Schouman (1710 - 1792, Dutch) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    Isaak Tirion, Publisher
    After
    Mutsart, Painter
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 221mm
    width (print): 138mm
    height (paper support): 229mm
    width (paper support): 147mm
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of William Charles Henry Frisco, Prince of Orange. Turned to the left as viewed and looking back at viewer, he wears armour with ermine cloak. Oval in a rectangular frame.

    Inscribed ‘Mutsart pinx 1749. WILLEM DE VIERDE, PRINS VAN ORANJE EN NASSAU, Erfstadhouder, Kapitein-Generaal en Admirael der Vereenigde Nederlanden. A.Schouman del. J. Houbraken sec. IS TIRION excud. 1759’ and pencilled ‘1733. 1/-'.

    William Charles Henry Frisco, Price of Orange was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1734.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.58
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