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| Keywords: Adriaen van Nieulandt the younger - Prince Maurits with His Horse and Groom - Walters 372507.jpg Maurits prince of Orange 1567-1625 and stadholder of the United Provinces was very successful as the commander of the republic's military forces The war with Spain dragged on for two decades after his death but the course he established was decisive in ultimately achieving independence Maurits is depicted in a field in a kind of double portrait with an immense dapple-gray war horse that he is training He was famous as a breeder of horses for battle and is often shown with this horse It may be the offspring of a prize dapple-gray Spanish war horse a breed famous since antiquity captured by Maurits's forces from the Spanish Habsburg commander Archduke Albert bred with a heavier northern European war horse 1624 Baroque Oil on canvas cm 207 5 302 5 accession number 37 2507 3337 Dr Francis D Murnaghan Fund date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of the Dr Francis D Murnaghan Fund 1973 place of origin Amsterdam Netherlands Walters Art Museum license 2D ImageNote 1 1175 743 275 254 1800 1207 2 A dog hidden in the shadow ImageNoteEnd 1 Adriaen van Nieulandt 17th-century portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Grey warhorses of Maurice of Nassau 1624 oil on canvas paintings Portrait 1624 portrait paintings Male 17th-century oil portraits of standing men at full length 1624 Male boots in portrait paintings 1624 Oil paintings of horses Portrait paintings of men wearing hats 1624 | ||||
