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Detail from Vermeer's Music Lesson
Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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WILLEM JACOBSZ DELFF (1580-1638)

Guilhielmus D.G. Princeps Auraicae; Comes Nassaviae

RCIN 611911

William I, Prince of Orange (r. 1544 – 84) was a leading figure in the Dutch revolts against Spanish Habsburg rule, and formally founded the House of Nassau-Orange. This portrait was engraved almost 40 years after his death, by which time he was celebrated in the Netherlands as 'Vader des vaderlands’, the Father of the Fatherland.
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