Adriaen Hanneman

Adriaen Hanneman (c. 1603 – buried 11 July 1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter best known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court.

Records show him selling possessions again and again in 1670, and the next year he died in The Hague, leaving all of his drawings and engravings to his student Simon du Parcq.

[1] Hanneman is best known for court portraits of the British and Dutch nobility, usually painted in imitation of the style of Anthony van Dyck.

In about 1639, soon after returning from England, he painted a portrait of the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695), a contemporary of Isaac Newton, who discovered the wave theory of light, Saturn's rings and the pendulum clock.

In about 1654, he painted the four-year-old William III, Prince of Orange, wearing the sash of the Order of the Garter.

The painting (now in the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands) was made several years after her death, at the request of her son, Willem III.

Portrait of a Gentleman (circa 1655), Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya