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Portrait of William II of Orange, King of the Netherlands
Artist: Pieneman, Nicholas (Dutch, 1809-1860)
Date: 1849
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
King William II (1792-1849)
From 1840 to 1849 William II, Prince of Orange-Nassau, was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Limburg.
He was born on 6 December 1792 in ‘Het Oude Hof’ in The Hague. In 1795 his whole family went into exile in Britain. He grew up at the Prussian court and later studied at Oxford University.
In 1815 he fought under the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. As a mark of gratitude for this the Dutch people presented him with Soestdijk Palace. In 1816 he married Anna Pavlovna (1795-1865), daughter of Tsar Paul of Russia. Their marriage gave rise to close relations with Russia. In 1840 he succeeded his father, King Willem I, as King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Limburg.
In the revolutionary year of 1848, William gave in to the wishes of the liberal opposition and agreed to a constitution that drastically restricted royal power in favor of the representative assembly. He remained on the throne until his death on 17 March 1849 in his palace in Tilburg. He was succeeded by his eldest son, King William III.
Portrait of the Emperor Joseph II
Artist: Gertrude Cornélie Marie de Pélichy (Dutch, 1743–1825)
Date: c. 1784
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Musea Brugge / Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Joseph II (1741–1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790. As a quintessential "enlightened despot," he sought to modernize the Habsburg Empire. His sweeping reforms aimed to centralize the state, abolish serfdom, promote religious tolerance, and limit the power of the Catholic Church, though many were reversed due to fierce resistance.
Born in Vienna, Joseph was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. Influenced by the Age of Enlightenment, he admired philosophers like Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the military success of his rival, Frederick the Great.
During his mother’s lifetime, Joseph served as co-ruler (1765–1780) but was largely restricted to military and treasury roles. Maria Theresa was highly conservative and disagreed with his revolutionary, secular ideas Upon his mother's death in 1780, Joseph became sole ruler of the Austrian Habsburg dominions and immediately began implementing his radical restructuring programs.
Joseph II was an idealistic reformer, but he tried to do too much, too quickly. His top-down mandates alienated the nobility, the church, and even the peasants they were designed to help, while his expensive and reckless foreign policies badly isolated the empire.
By the end of his life, widespread unrest forced him to revoke most of his sweeping changes. Though a tragic and exhausted figure on his deathbed, his foundational ideas of religious equality, state secularism, and universal rights left a lasting legacy on the Austrian Empire and modern European history.
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Charles II (1630-1685)
Artist: Simon Verelst (Dutch, 1644-1721)
Date: c. 1670-1675
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom
Charles II of England
Charles II (1630–1685) reigned as King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 until his death. Known as the "Merry Monarch," his era is celebrated as the Restoration period, bringing back the monarchy and reopening society and the arts after the strict, republican rule of Oliver Cromwell.
Portrait of Magtilda Muilman
Artist: Frans van der Mijn (Dutch, 1719-1783)
Date: ca. 1745-1747
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands