This portrait was painted by Albert Eckhout c. 1640…
Albert Eckhout was a Dutch portrait and still life painter…
He was among the first European artists to paint scenes from the New World…”
Albert Eckhout traveled to Brazil in 1637 as part of a Dutch expedition led by Governor Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen…
John Maurice of Nassau, called "the Brazilian" for his fruitful period as governor of Dutch Brazil, was Count and (from 1664) Prince of Nassau-Siegen…
He was appointed as the governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil in 1636 by the Dutch West India Company on recommendation of Frederick Henry…
He landed at Recife, the port of Pernambuco and the chief stronghold of the Dutch, in January 1637…
Immediately after his arrival, he began a campaign against the Spanish-Portuguese forces, which he defeated in repeated encounters…
As previously stated, Eckhout arrived in Brazil with John Maurice in 1637, staying there until 1644…
This portrait was painted c. 1640, which means it was painted while Eckhout was still in Brazil…
Here we are dealing with so called Blacks in art, and what Eurocentricks have done with Blacks in art…
What they do is to declare those Blacks pictured in European art as either slaves, servants, the mythical St. Maurice, St. Balthazar, St. Casper, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Zamor, William Ansah Sessarakoo, Ira Aldridge, or most ridiculously, the Ambassador of the King of the Congo...
Another tactic they use to falsify the true meaning of so called Black artwork is to give it false and often derogatory titles intended to explain away the presence of so called Blacks in Europe i.e. they are ALWAYS Africans, slaves or servants...
When portraits of Black nobility are discovered, Eurocentricks concoct outrageously stupid scenarios to explain their existence...
They like to engage in one of their favorite methods of falsifying history, that is to declare all European Blacks as Africans, African Slaves, or the children of African Slaves; without the inconvenience of having to PROVE what they say...
There is absolutely no “Dom Miguel de Castro, Emissary of Congo” mentioned or referenced in any firsthand or primary sources from the 17th or 18th centuries…
John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen (Johan Maurits) and William the Silent were second cousins…
They were both part of the larger Nassau family, which had multiple branches…
Both men shared a common ancestor, Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg, who was William the Silent’s younger brother…
William the Silent’s father was William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg…
John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen’s great-grandfather, Count John V of Nassau-Siegen, was William the Silent’s uncle…
This means their fathers were cousins, making William the Silent and John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen second cousins by blood...
“In person, Orange was above the middle height, perfectly well made and sinewy, but rather spare than stout. His eyes, hair, beard, and COMPLEXION were BROWN”
SOURCE;
(John Stevens Cabot Abbott, “The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte”; 1859)
PLEASE NOTE how they differentiate between hair AND skin complexion…
His hair was brown AS WAS his skin complexion…
Emmanuel Van Meteren who certainly knew William the Silent said:
“He was a well built man, taller than the average, with BROWN COMPLEXION and beard”
Everhard Van Reyd, who also knew him said:
“He had medium height, [and a] BROWN COMPLEXION”
SOURCES;
(Ruth Putnam, "William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the Moderate Man of the Sixteenth Century; The Story of His Life as Told from His Own Letters, from Those of His Friends and Enemies and from Official Documents"; 1895)
(Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton, "Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages" Volume 9; 1906)
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