Portrait of Stadholder Maurits (1567-1625), Prince of Orange

Maurits of Nassau led the army of the Dutch Republic from the late 1580s, yet he became Prince of Orange only in 1618, when his elder half-brother Philip William died. He held the title for seven years, until his own death in 1625. He never married, and it passed to his younger half-brother Frederick Henry.

This large canvas shows him in armour with a commander's baton. It repeats a portrait type by Michiel van Mierevelt, and the copyist is unknown. It arrived as an anonymous gift in 1819. The picture hangs in the Gallery Prince Willem V and belongs to the Mauritshuis, which takes its name from a different Maurits, his younger kinsman Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen, who had the house built between 1636 and 1641.