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Jacob Jacobsz de Wet II (1641, Haarlem – 1697, Amsterdam), also known as James de Witt,[1] was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for a series of 110 portraits of Scottish monarchs, many of them mythical, produced for the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh during the reign of Charles II.

  1. ^ Morton, H.V. (1929). In Search of Scotland. Methuen.

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