A Family beside the Tomb of Prince William i in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
Rijksmuseum

A Family beside the Tomb of Prince William i in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft

1645

CC0 — Public Domain
Rijksmuseum

The tomb of William of Orange became a much-visited attraction from the moment it was completed in 1621. People like this family – a father, mother and two sons, all dressed in restrained, decorous black – even had painters immortalize them standing next to the monument as evidence of their solidarity with the ‘Father of the Fatherland’.

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