Resumen de Peeter Thijs (1624-77)-an Antwerp Portraitist under the Patronage of William Frederick of Nassau-Dietz (1613-64)
Katrien Alice Liliane Daemen de Gelder, J. P. Vander Motten
A number of previously unnoticed and unstudied letters indicate that around 1660, William Frederick, Count of Nassau-Dietz and Stadholder of Friesland, commissioned four portraits from Antwerp master painter Peeter Thijs. The current whereabouts of the paintings are unknown, but these works consisted of a portrait of William Frederick, another of his wife and two children, a portrait of Louise Henriette of Orange-Nassau, and one of Henriette Catharina of Orange-Nassau. A student of Artus Deurwaerders, Thijs entered the Antwerp Guild of Painters in 1644–45, and achieved a reputation as a portrait painter.
