A king of the House of Orange - portraits of Willem II of the Netherlands

Unknown artist, 1815.

Jan Baptist van der Hulst, 1848.

Nicolaas Pieneman, 1849.

Jan Baptist van der Hulst, 1833.

 Nicaise de Keyser, 1846.

Louis-Henri de Fontenay (?), 1840.

After John Singleton Copley, circa 1813-15.

Unknown artist, circa 1840s.

William Salter, 1840. (This very curious painting - crude to begin with, like all of Salter's work - looks also to be quite damaged, possibly by fire.)

François Joseph Kinson, 1830.

Jan Adam Kruseman, 1842.

Jan Adam Kruseman, 1840.

Willem II at his desk in the Kneuterdijk Palace, by Augustus Wijantz, 1847.

Nicolaas Pieneman, circa 1840s.

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I've written about Willem II before - his life, his wife, and other things - here.

Swedes on board - Great Garbo and Nils Asther in "The Single Standard", 1929

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Garbo arrived in Hollywood in 1925; Asther two years later. Sometimes referred to as "the male Greta Garbo" because of his nationality and his epicene beauty, Asther made two films with Garbo in 1929, "Wild Orchids" and "the Single Standard". Having know each other previously in Sweden - both had been mentored by director Mauritz Stiller - the gay Asther and bisexual Garbo became good friends for a time, even vacationing together. In his posthumously published - and quite unreliable - memoirs, Asther claimed to have proposed marriage to Garbo on three separate occasions. With no doubts regarding his sexuality - or her own? - she understandably refused.

Always the telling gaze - selected paintings by Anton Einsle

 

Family portrait, circa 1830.

Portrait of a man, circa 1830s.

Julius Löwe, 1847.

Portrait of a lady, 1843.

Portrait of a gentleman, 1830.

Portrait of a lady, 1838.

 Erzherzog Karl Ludwig, 1848.

Portrait of a young lady, 1847.

Portrait of an officer, 1829.

Portraits of Anna and Jakob Regenhart, 1853.

Portrait of a young lady, 1847.

Erzherzog Karl von Österreich, Herzog von Teschen, circa 1830s-40s.

Sleeping child, 1854.

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Anton Einsle (30 January 1801, Vienna - 10 March 1871, Vienna), Austrian portrait painter. The son of a surgical instrument maker, at the age of thirteen he began study at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien in Vienna; at sixteen he was winning awards for his work and had accepted his first commissions. He began showing in Prague and Dresden and, a bit later, in Vienna. He worked for several years in Prague beginning in 1829, and in Budapest from 1832. In 1838 he was appointed court painter to the imperial family and returned to Vienna, where he was provided with a large studio in the Hofburg.