When Count Maurice of Nassau arrived in Brazil, he brought with him an entourage consisting of artists and scientists, which included the painters Frans Post and Albert Eckhout who first depicted the Brazilian landscape and its inhabitants and the physician and naturopath Willem Piso and botanist Georg Marggraf who described the flora, fauna and culture of Brazil in the scientific work Historia Naturalis Brasiliae.

[4] During the administration of Count Maurice of Nassau, bridges, dikes, a botanical garden, and the first astronomical observatory in the Americas were built in Recife.

[5] The freedom of religion instituted by him in the colony also attracted Dutch Jews, who founded in the current city of Recife the first Jewish temple in the Americas, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue.

[6] In the mid-1850s, a group of Dutch immigrants emigrated to Brazil and settled in the state of Espírito Santo, where they established the Holanda and Holandinha colonies.

[7] The diplomatic ties between the two countries date back to 1828, when the Empire of Brazil and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands signed a Treaty of Friendship, Navigation, and Commerce.