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DYCK, Sir Anthony van: Portrait of Prince Willem II of Orange as a Young Boy, with a Dog

🖼 Portrait of Prince Willem II of Orange as a Young Boy, with a Dog, c. 1632
Oil on canvas
128 × 100 cm

Rich fabrics and refined brushwork frame the young prince in aristocratic splendor, his loyal spaniel completing the composition of youthful nobility. Van Dyck's portraiture established the visual language of power for European royalty throughout the seventeenth century.

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