Pieter Nason Amsterdam circa 1612 - circa 1688/90 The Hague

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Description

Pieter Nason
portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm, elector of brandenburg (1620-1688), three-quarter length standing, wearing armour, robes and holding a baton
signed and dated lower right: PNason.f/ 1666
oil on canvas

Literature

J.P. Richter, 1901, p. 76, no. 181 (as a portrait of Philippe Egalité, Duc d'Orléans).

Catalogue Note

Friedrich Wilhelm, known as the "Grosse Kurfürst", succeeded his father George Wilhelm as Elector in 1640. He married, firstly in 1646, Louise Henriette, Princess of Orange-Nassau (1627-1667), and secondly Dorothea, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sondenburg (1636-1689).