Plaquette with King William II of the Netherlands (1792-1849)

anonymous, c. 1840 - c. 1842

Rechthoekige zwarte gietijzeren plaquette met in relief portret van koning Willem II in uniform; hoeken afgeschuind, aan bovenkant een ringetje.

  • Artwork typesculpture
  • Object numberNG-817
  • Dimensionsheight 18.5 cm x width 14.5 cm x depth 3 cm
  • Physical characteristicscast iron

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Plaquette with King William II of the Netherlands (1792-1849)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    NG-817

  • Description

    Rechthoekige zwarte gietijzeren plaquette met in relief portret van koning Willem II in uniform; hoeken afgeschuind, aan bovenkant een ringetje.

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Creation

  • Creation

    sculptor: anonymous, Netherlands

  • Dating

    c. 1840 - c. 1842

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    cast iron

  • Dimensions

    height 18.5 cm x width 14.5 cm x depth 3 cm

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  • Person

  • Period

    1792 - 1849

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; first recorded in the museum in 1973{J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, _Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum_, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 458.}

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anonymous

Plaquette with King William II of the Netherlands (1792-1849)

Netherlands, c. 1840 - c. 1842

Technical notes

Cast.

Condition

Good.

Provenance

…; first recorded in the museum in 19731J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 458.

Object number: NG-817

Entry

This cast iron relief with the portrait bust of King William II will have come about not long after the subject had ascended the throne on 7 October 1840. The anonymous modeller probably based his work on one of the two large official portraits which Jan Adam Kruseman (1804-1862) painted of the new king in 1842 for the city halls of The Hague and Amsterdam.2Cf. E. Lipke-Deetman et al., Jan Adam Kruseman 1804-1862, exh. cat. Apeldoorn (Paleis Het Loo) 2002, figs. 5 and 7, nos. 399 and 405. The simple relief may have been cast by Enthoven in The Hague, a company not only producing functional objects and structures, but also specialized in casting (semi-)artistic items of this type. For example, a brass bust of the said king in the Hague Historical Museum,3The Hague, Haags Historisch Musuem, inv. no. 0000-0022-BEO. and a cast iron bust of King William I by Louis Royer (1793-1868) in the Rijksmuseum (NG-MC-1320) both come from that foundry.

Bieke van der Mark, 2026

Literature

J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 458

Citation

B. van der Mark, 2026, 'anonymous, Plaquette with King William II of the Netherlands (1792-1849), Netherlands, c. 1840 - c. 1842', in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20048868

(accessed 2 augustus 2026 09:30:04 UTC+0).

Footnotes

  • 1J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 458.
  • 2Cf. E. Lipke-Deetman et al., Jan Adam Kruseman 1804-1862, exh. cat. Apeldoorn (Paleis Het Loo) 2002, figs. 5 and 7, nos. 399 and 405.
  • 3The Hague, Haags Historisch Musuem, inv. no. 0000-0022-BEO.