Time for historic portraits of The Benelux Royalty

My favorite portrait of the King-stadtholder William lll

Lovely portraits...are there any of Princess Anna Charlotte?

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And this lady I found once as Henrietta Amalia of Anhalt, wife of Henri Casimir and next time as Maria Luisa Hesse-Kassel, wife of Johann Willem Friso...Which attribution is correct? thanks!

I found a similar looking person in a cameo portrait (match up not guaranteed) in Guide to Women Leaders with this bio:
"1696-1708 Regent Dowager Princess Henriëtte Amalia Maria von Anhalt-Dessau of Nassau in Diez (Germany)
1696-1708 Governess-General of Friesland, Groningen and Drente (The Netherlands)

Following the death of her husband, Hendrik Casimir II, she acted as regent for son, Johan Wilhelm Friso (1697-1711). She was daughter of Johan Georg II von Anhalt-Dessau and Henriette Catharina van Oranje-Nassau, who had acted as regent for Henriëtte Amalia's brother. She lived (1666-1726)."

To avoid confusion: it is certainly Marie Louise of Hesse-Cassel (1688-1765), wife of Johan Willem Friso.

Here you can find a portrait of Amalie with her mother Marie Louise and brother Willem IV:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:MarijkeMeumetKinderen.jpg

This is her  (Marie Louise of Hessen Kassel) son  stadtholder William lV It seems almost impossible to get hold on paintings of her daughter besides the ones from this blog and wikipedia.

Stadtholder William ll

Lovely portraits...are there any of Princess Anna Charlotte?

The closest I can get for you: Anna Charlotte Amalia. She was a highly sensible woman and after her husband died at young age she gradually lost grip of her mind. She lived in the same castle as her two children but in a different wing. She was separated from her children by her father in law because he did not want his grandchildren to be influenced by her. Her children though kept in touch with their grandmother and uncle in the Netherlands and they visited Marie Louise regularly at Soestdijk palace for instance.

So,in terms of "doublespeaking",was she mad?Her portrait is very hard to find...

I am not quite sure if she was really mad and in which degree. It is known to me that she had outbursts of rage during her pregnancies and tyrannized her servants during both pregnancies (she had two sons). From other sources I get the impression that she was highly sensible and very homesick to her mother.  In her early wedding years she visited her homeland and than started crying (as I remeber reading in a book about her mother Marie Louise of Hessen Kassel) as soon as she saw the church tower of Arnhem (she must have travelled by boat down on the Rhine to the Netherlands). So she certainly was a emotional personal.

I am sure her mother raises her to be a good and kind person, so to speak as Marie Louise was herself. Maybe she could have been treatened very easily (by our standards today) for her mental illness, allthough it is not clear to me what she was suffering from.

So alltogether I would say that it will not be easy to find a good portrait of her. Maybe this summer I will visit karlsruhe and Baden Baden. Perhaps there is more to be found overthere.

An on-line exhibition of photo's by Court photographer Franz Ziegler (1893 - 1939),the Royal House website:

http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/Actueel/Fotogalerij/Tentoonstelling_Koninklijk_Huisarchief/Hoffotograaf_Franz_Ziegler_1893_1939

This gem of a thread is my favorite on the BeNeLux,and I love to highlight this on-line
Historical Gallery here from time to time. Enjoy!

This gem of a thread is my favorite on the BeNeLux,and I love to highlight this on-line
Historical Gallery here from time to time. Enjoy!

Once a year,I highlight my favorite thread...

Lovely portraits...are there any of Princess Anna Charlotte?

I  am now answering to myself

Unfortunately only a black and white portrait of Anna Charlotte:

Thank you Marc, indeed a pity that it is not a coloured one. Where is it now? In Karlsruhe?
I tried to locate if there is a coloured version from Marie of the Netherlands, daughter of prince Frederick (you posted recently) but did not succeed so far.
It is the only real portrait from princess Marie as far as I know at least. And she looks pretty in this portrait.

Greetz and thanks a lot.

Thank you for your search...I did too,but failed

The portrait of Anna Charlotte should be,in Gripsholm Castle in Sweden,although I visited it 3 months ago and haven't seen it :-(

I think that's the only known portrait of Marie zu Wied that I have ever seen and unfortunately black and white...

Love all the paintings shown!