Ambulatory of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, with the Tomb of William the Silent

The black-and-white marble tomb at the centre of this picture is the grave of William of Orange, leader of the Dutch revolt against Spain, designed by the sculptor Hendrick de Keyser and completed in 1623. Houckgeest shows it at an angle, from the choir aisle behind it, with the columns cutting across the view and the church opening two ways, the nave on the left and the curve of the ambulatory on the right. That took difficult perspective, and the black and white floor tiles on the right are slightly out of true. He signed and dated the front column, GH 1651. The panel later belonged to Stadholder William V of Orange, until French troops took it to Paris in 1795, and it came back after Napoleon's fall in 1815.