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32-516: Abraham Bredius (18 April 1855 – 13 March 1946) was a Dutch art collector, art historian, and museum curator. Bredius travelled widely, visiting various art collections in his youth, and worked at the Dutch Museum for History and Art before becoming director, from 1889 to 1909, of the Mauritshuis . He became a Rembrandt expert who had many differences of opinion with Cornelis Hofstede de Groot . He

64-657: A marble bust portrait of himself for the garden of the Mauritshuis, the Prince's residence in the Hague. The statue was sculpted by the Flemish sculptor Bartholomeus Eggers . Prince Maurice had the bust moved to the burial chamber (Fürstengruft) in Siegen which he had built for himself in 1670. In 1986 a copy of the statue made in plastic was placed inside the Mauritshuis. The bust was removed from

96-450: A staff of around 91 people. Emilie Elise Saskia Gordenker was museum director from 2008 until 2020. Martine Gosselink assumed the directorship in February 2020. Victor Moussault served as deputy director from 2007 until 2016, succeeded by Sander Uitdenbogaard in 2017. In the period 2005 to 2011, the Mauritshuis saw between 205,000 and 262,000 visitors per year. In 2011, the museum

128-432: Is now believed that posthumous claims that the design for the monument was by Cornelis Moninx and not by Eggers himself are not substantiated. In this commission Eggers chose to use the device of the canopy, which already had been used by Hendrick de Keyser for the tomb of William of Orange. The monument includes a standing portrait of van Wassenaer, thus comparing the admiral with heroes from Antiquity. The figure group behind

160-470: Is the property of the state, continues to be rented by the museum. In 2007, the museum announced its desire to expand. Within three years the definitive design was presented. The museum would occupy a part of the nearby Sociëteit de Witte building. The two buildings would be connected via a tunnel, running underneath the Korte Vijverberg. The renovation started in 2012 and finished in 2014. The design

192-793: The Battle of Lowestoft against the English. Eggers beat out the sculptor Rombout Verhulst in a competition for the commission written out by the States General of the Dutch Republic. Eggers likely moved to The Hague to complete the monument that was created for the St James Church in The Hague as he was registered as a master of the Guild of Saint Luke of the Hague in 1665. The monument was completed in 1667. In

224-683: The Binnenhof and the adjacent Hofvijver pond in The Hague , at that time the political centre of the Dutch Republic . Between 1636 and 1641, the Mauritshuis was built on this piece of land, during John Maurice's governorship of Dutch Brazil . It was built in the Dutch Classicist style by the Dutch architects Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post . The two-storey building is strictly symmetrical; originally

256-631: The Dutch Republic . Here he initially collaborated with other Flemish sculptors on the sculptural decorations for the new city hall in Amsterdam, a project which was under the direction of Artus Quellinus the Elder . He worked on various public projects and on commissions for leading courts in Europe. He is known for his portraits, funerary sculptures, reliefs, statues of children and allegorical, biblical and mythological sculptures. He was, together with Artus Quellinus

288-517: The Museum Bredius . He also bequeathed several Rembrandt paintings to the National Dutch collection, including Rembrandt's Homer Dictating his Verses . This article about a Dutch writer or poet is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mauritshuis In 1631, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen , a cousin of Stadtholder Frederick Henry , bought a plot bordering

320-694: The Amsterdam city hall established the international reputation of Quellinus and his workshop and would lead to many more foreign commissions for the Quellinus workshop including in Germany, Denmark and England. This helped further spread the Flemish Baroque idiom in Europe. Eggers remained in Quellinus' workshop until 1663, the year in which he registered as a master in the Amsterdam Guild of Saint Luke and started to work as an independent master. The same year he

352-582: The Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke studying sculpture as a pupil of Pieter Verbrugghen I . The Guild register notes that he was a poor pupil who did not pay his Guild dues but was registered for the record. His master Verbrugghen was the founder of an important sculpture workshop in Antwerp and the brother-in-law of the leading Antwerp sculptor Artus Quellinus the Elder . After studying in Italy where he had worked in

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384-463: The Elder and Rombout Verhulst , one of the leading sculptors active in the Dutch Republic in the second half of the 17th century. Bartholomeus Eggers was born in Antwerp , the son of Bernaert Eggers, a gardener, and Elisabeth van Ouwenhuysen (or Oudenhuysen). He had a brother called Jacob (or Jacobus) who also became a sculptor but died relatively young. In the guild year 1646–1647, he was registered at

416-403: The Mauritshuis in 2017 amidst controversy over Holland's colonial history and Prince John Maurice's role in the slave trade. The Mauritshuis museum has denied that the removal had anything to do with the controversy and has stated that the decision was taken on the grounds that the object was solely a copy made of plastic and the museum was unable to offer the necessary historical context for it in

448-493: The Royal Cabinet of Paintings. In 1822, the Mauritshuis was opened to the public and housed the Royal Cabinet of Paintings and the Royal Cabinet of Rarities. In 1875, the entire museum became available for paintings. In 1995, the Mauritshuis was established as a non-profit foundation. The foundation set up at that time took charge of both the building and the collection, which it was given on long-term loan. This building, which

480-464: The burial chamber (Fürstengruft) in Siegen which he had built for himself in 1670. In 1986 a copy of the statue made in plastic was placed inside the Mauritshuis, which is now a museum. The bust was removed from the Mauritshuis in 2017 amidst controversy over Holland's colonial history and Prince John Maurice's role in the slave trade. The Mauritshuis museum has denied that the removal had anything to do with

512-545: The church interior. From 1650 onwards, Quellinus worked for fifteen years on the new city hall in Amsterdam together with the lead architect Jacob van Campen . Now called the Royal Palace on the Dam , this construction project, and in particular the marble decorations that Quellinus and his workshop produced, became an example for other buildings in Amsterdam. Quellinus invited many sculptors from his native Antwerp to assist him in

544-410: The collection in the Mauritshuis. The Mauritshuis was a state museum until 1995, when it became an independent foundation. It still continues to receive funding from the Dutch central government. For its estimated budget for 2024, the government provided just under a third (5m Euros) of its total budget of 16m Euros. The Prince William V Gallery is also managed by the organisation. The museum has

576-409: The controversy and has stated that the decision was taken on the grounds that the object was solely a copy made of plastic and the museum was unable to offer the necessary historical context for it in the foyer of the Mauritshuis where it was exhibited. Another important commission for Eggers was that for the monument of Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam , admiral of the Dutch fleet, who was killed in 1665 in

608-513: The foyer of the Mauritshuis where it was exhibited. The museum has since created a webpage dedicated to explaining the role of the Prince in the creation of the museum's building and collection and the museum's current view of the Prince. The statements on the page highlight the key role the Prince played in the slave trade in Brazil and how his immense wealth was likely sourced (in certain cases even in breach of then existing rules) from his involvement in

640-485: The hero, consisting of an allegory of Fame and an eagle with a globe and thunderbolts in its claws further emphasizes the notion of an apotheosis of the hero. The monument shows that Eggers was clear about the propagandistic intent of the States General when commissioning the monument as it was to show the heroism of the citizens defending the cause of the Republic as opposed to the power of the aristocratic elite represented by

672-446: The interior contained four apartments and a great hall. Each apartment was designed with an antechamber, a chamber, a cabinet, and a cloakroom. The building had a cupola , which was destroyed in a fire in 1704. After the death of Prince John Maurice in 1679, the house was owned by the Maes family, who leased the house to the Dutch government. In 1704, most of the interior of the Mauritshuis

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704-506: The realisation of this project, many of whom such as his cousin Artus Quellinus II , Rombout Verhulst and Gabriël Grupello would become leading sculptors in their own right. Eggers was also one of the sculptors who left Antwerp to work in Amsterdam some time between 1650 and 1654 to participate in this large-scale project. His exact contributions cannot be identified as this was a collaborative effort. The sculptural decorations in

736-672: The slave trade. The collection of paintings of stadholder William V, Prince of Orange was presented to the Dutch state by his son, King William I . This collection formed the basis of the Royal Cabinet of Paintings of around 200 paintings. The collection is currently called the Royal Picture Gallery. The current collection consists of almost 800 paintings and focusses on Dutch and Flemish artists, such as Pieter Brueghel , Paulus Potter , Peter Paul Rubens , Rembrandt van Rijn , Jacob van Ruisdael , Johannes Vermeer , and Rogier van der Weyden . There are also works of Hans Holbein in

768-684: The tomb of Carl Hieronymus Baron of In- en Kniphuizen and Anna van Ewsum made by Rombout Verhulst in the Dutch Reformed church in Midwolde . He added a statue of Georg Wilhelm van In- en Kniphuizen, Anna's second husband. In 1687 and 1688 he worked in Berlin to complete marble statues of twelve Electors of Brandenburg and four ancient and medieval emperors for the Berlin Palace . It is believed he died before 23 February 1692, probably in Amsterdam. Eggers

800-440: The workshop of his compatriot François Duquesnoy , Quellinus had returned to Antwerp in 1640. He had brought with him a new vision of the role of the sculptor. The sculptor was no longer to be an ornamentalist but a creator of a total artwork in which architectural components were replaced by sculptures. He saw the church furniture that he was commissioned to make as an occasion for creating large-scale compositions, incorporated into

832-707: The years 1668 and 1669 Eggers worked on a relief showing people weighing cheese that was made for the facade of the Waag ( weigh-house ) in Gouda . By the 1670s Eggers had returned to Amsterdam. Here he married Margreta Ruytiers (born 1651) on 19 February 1672. The couple had in 1674 a surviving daughter named Johanna Margaretha who later married Cornelis Stichter, a publisher and bookseller. Eggers continued to receive commissions from local and foreign patrons, both aristocratic as civil. The Elector of Brandenburg as well as Prince John Maurice remained important patrons. He made alterations to

864-592: Was a regular contributor to the historical magazines Oud Holland and Künstler-Inventare . In 1922, he left the Netherlands for health reasons and settled in Monaco , publishing books in 1927 on Jan Steen and, in 1935, a catalog of Rembrandt paintings, often referred to in the literature as "Bredius 1935". He bequeathed his papers to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie , and his art collection lives on in

896-444: Was a versatile sculptor who worked in marble, stone and terracotta. He created mainly portrait statutes of contemporary sitters or historical figures, decorative architectural elements and statues, funerary sculptures, reliefs and statues of children and allegorical, biblical and mythological sculptures. The monument of Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam was one of his early masterpieces that secured him many of his subsequent commissions. It

928-417: Was able to secure an important commission from Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg , possibly at the recommendation of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen who resided in The Hague and was likely already one of his patrons. In 1664 Prince John Maurice ordered a marble bust portrait of himself for the garden of the Mauritshuis , the Prince's residence in the Hague. The Prince had the original moved to

960-649: Was by Hans van Heeswijk. During the renovation, about 100 of the museum's paintings were displayed in The Hague's Kunstmuseum in the Highlights Mauritshuis exhibition. About 50 other paintings, including the Girl With the Pearl Earring , went on loan to exhibitions in the United States and Japan. The expanded museum was reopened on 27 June 2014 by King Willem-Alexander . In 1664 Prince John Maurice ordered

992-515: Was destroyed by fire. The building was restored between 1708 and 1718. In 1774, an art gallery open to the public was formed in what is now the Prince William V Gallery . That collection was seized by the French in 1795 and only partially recovered in 1808. The small gallery space soon proved to be too small, however, and in 1820, the Mauritshuis was bought by the Dutch state for the purpose of housing

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1024-540: Was the 13th most visited museum in the Netherlands. In 2012, when the museum closed for renovation on 1 April, it received 45,981 visitors. The museum was closed all of 2013 and was reopened on 27 June 2014. It closed for three months in the spring of 2020 in response to the Covid epidemic. Bartholomeus Eggers Bartholomeus Eggers (c. 1637 – before 23 February 1692) was a Flemish sculptor, who after training in his hometown Antwerp spent most of his active career in

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