Adriaen Hanneman - Hanneman's Portraits

Hanneman's Portraits

Hanneman is best known for court portraits of the British and Dutch nobility, usually painted in imitation of the style of Anthony Van Dyke. According to some sources, he may have worked in the studio of Van Dyke in London. Later, in the Hague, he painted several English Royalists who had gone into exile in the Netherlands after the English Civil War.

• William Hamilton, Second Duke Hamilton (1616-1651) by Adriaen Hanneman, in the National Portrait Gallery in London

• Henry, Duke of Gloucester, by Adriaen Hanneman, from the National Gallery of Art in Washington

• Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck, by Adriaen Hanneman, from Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

• Family of Constantijn Huygens.

• Wendela Bicker (1635-1668), wife of Johan de Witt, by Adriaen Hanneman 1659

In about 1639, soon after returning from England, He painted a portrait of the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695), a contemporary of Isaac Newton, who discovered the wave theory of light, Saturn's rings, and the pendulum clock.

In about 1648, he painted Charles, the Prince of Wales, later Charles II of England, when he was in the Hague staying with his sister. The original painting is lost, but about thirty copies were made, and are found in different museums, including the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

In about 1654, he painted the four-year old William III, Prince of Orange, wearing the sash of the Order of the Garter. (now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.)

In about 1664 he painted Maria I Stuart (1631–1660,) the wife of Prince William II. The painting was made several years after her death, at the request of her son, Willem III. Mary is painted wearing a South American cloak of colored feathers, and a headress of pearls and ostrich feathers. Such cloaks had been brought to the Netherlands from Brazil as early as 1644. (now in the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands).