Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert

Father and Son

Forever framed together

Portrait of Don Ramón Satué

1:18 min. - Discover the power of simplicity in this work

Portraits of Giuliano and Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo

1:18 min. - A Florentine architect and his recently deceased father

Van Gogh's Self-Portrait

Maaike Rikhof about Van Gogh's famous Self-Portrait

Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker

1:02 min. - Striking pink tones and fashionable clothes

Thérèse Schwartze self-portrait

Self-portrait full of self-confidence

A self-portrait with flowers and electric light

Self-portrait Van Gogh

1:15 min. - Van Gogh painted this colourful self-portrait in Paris

Portraits

Spontaneously made or 'staged'?

Self-portraits

4:39 min. - They all seem to be saying ‘This is me!

Portrait of William I, Prince of Orange

1:18 min. - Father of the Dutch nation. Fighter or diplomat?

Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter

1:15 min. - His eyes are closed. Why?

10 fascinating facts about portraits

What stories do these subjects tell?

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Maria Trip

1:15 min. Rembrandt rendered her costly jewellery masterfully

Portrait of a Member of the Van der Mersch Family

1:12 min. - Learn more about this engaging portrait of an art lover

An African boy

Valika Smeulders on the painting by Van der Helst

Portrait of Cornelis van Oostsanen

1:16 min. - Does his gaze put us on the wrong track?

The art of laughing

Say cheese!

Immortal men

5:15 min. - See them glowing with pride

Men in the picture

4:57 min. - The men of the Rijksmuseum

Girl in Blue

1:17 min. - So what makes this such a popular painting?

The girl in blue

Friso Lammertse tells us more about the portrait by Verspronck

From generation to generation

The function of children's portraits

Immortal women

4:57 - See them glowing with pride

Women in the picture

4:39 min. - The women of the Rijksmuseum

Portrait of a couple, probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen

1:21 min. - What is there to smile about here?

Pray for me

The hope of eternal life

Portrait of William I

1:17 min. - King of the Netherlands