This is the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis. It was built in the seventeenth century as a private residence for Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen (17 June 1604 – 20 December 1679). Thus, Mauritshuis or Maurits’ House, when translated. Maurits was the governor-general of the Dutch colony in the South American…
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The Murder of the De Witt Brothers
As I walked aimlessly through the halls of Haags Historisch Museum / The Hague Historical Museum, a loud painting caught my eye. “The Murder of the De Witt Brothers”, by Pieter Frits, 1672. Scene one on the left, De Witt brothers dressed in black and white being dragged out of…