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.
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Jacob Jacobsz deWetII (1641, Haarlem – 1697, Amsterdam), also known as James de Witt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for a series of 110 portraits...
Jacob Willemszoon deWet or Jacob Willemsz. deWet the Elder (c. 1610 – between 1675 and 1691) was a Dutch Golden Age painter whose works were largely...
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(Modern Scottish Gaelic: Coinneach mac Mhaoil Chaluim, anglicised Kenneth II, and nicknamed An Fionnghalach, "The Fratricidal"; 932 - 995) was King of...
Cináeda (Modern Scottish Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Choinnich; anglicised Malcolm II; c. 954 – 25 November 1034) was King of Alba (Scotland) from 1005 until his...
enshrined at the instigation of King Philip II of Spain in the royal monastery of St Lawrence near Madrid, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, where they remain. Malcolm...
said to have been a Pictish princess, the sister of Constantine I and Óengus II. According to the Pictish tradition, a female representative of the royal...
wounded, managed to evade the attackers and reached her son—now King James II—in Edinburgh Castle. James was probably born in late July 1394 at Dunfermline...
17th-century plaster ceilings, augmented by paintings of Hercules by JacobdeWetII. The 17th-century State Bed has been in the palace since 1684, and...
monarchs from the list was painted for Charles II by JacobdeWetII, and hung in Holyrood Palace. The deWet portrait collection later became a noted sight...
late Pleistocene and Holocene geologic epochs, when northern Africa was wetter than today. The covering of much of the Sahara desert by grasses, trees...
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈrœyzˌdaːl] ; c. 1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher...
taught by Jacob Willemszoon deWet. He was the brother of Isaac and the father of Barend and Jan II. He is known for landscapes in the manner of Jacob van Ruisdael...
Crínán, hereditary lay abbot of Dunkeld, and Bethóc, daughter of King Malcolm II. However, in the late 17th century the historian Frederic Van Bossen, after...
European continent was in May 1165, when his mother took him to Normandy. His wet nurse was Hodierna of St Albans, whom he gave a generous pension after he...
Before wet shaving, the area to be shaved is usually doused in warm to hot water by showering or bathing or covered for several minutes with a hot wet towel...
Deale Deneysville – Deneys Reitz Dewetsdorp – Jacobus deWet, father of General Christiaan deWet Fauresmith – Reverend Phillip Faure and Sir Harry Smith...
the subject in order to evoke the instinctive fear of drowning. Often a wet cloth is placed in the subject's mouth, giving them the impression that they...
variability, three main climatic periods have been observed over the Sahel: the wet period from 1950 to the early 1960s followed by a dry period from 1972 to...
first Huguenots arrive in the Cape Colony and found Franschhoek. Koopmans-deWet House is built; becoming the oldest house museum in South Africa. The Free...