The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis ( English: " Maurice House ") is an art museum in The Hague, the Netherlands.

The Mauritshuis was a state museum until it was privatised in 1995.

The residence he built in The Hague is now called the Mauritshuis, and is now a museum of Dutch paintings.

One of the towers, simply known as het Torentje (' the Little Tower '; directly next to the Mauritshuis museum ) has been the office of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 1982.

Some of his portraits are life-size, but the artist generally preferred to keep them on a considerably smaller scale, like the famous Four Amsterdam burgomasters assembled to receive Marie de Medici in 1638, now on display at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague.

Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft ( Mauritshuis, The Hague ) 1660-1661

His most famous painting not to be confused with his work " The Bull " is The Young Bull ( circa 1647 ), that is now in Mauritshuis in The Hague, composed after drawings Potter made in nature.

In 1945, Sturla Gudlaugsson, a specialist in Dutch seventeenth-century painting and iconography and Director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Mauritshuis in The Hague, wrote The Comedians in the work of Jan Steen and his Contemporaries, which revealed that a major influence on Jan Steen's work was the guild of the Rhetoricians or Rederijkers and their theatrical endeavors.

Pieter Claesz ( c. 1597 – 1660 ), Vanitas still life, 1630, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague

* 1654 The Goldfinch, oil on panel, Mauritshuis The Hague

* 1658: The Young Mother ( Mauritshuis, The Hague )

Bloemaert is represented in the following collections: Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan ; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg ; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana ; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles ; Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City ; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota ; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen ; Musée du Louvre, Paris ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy ; Museum of Grenoble ; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ; Royal Academy of Arts, London ; University of Rochester, New York ; Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina ; Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands ; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio ; Courtauld Institute of Art, London ; Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts ; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany ; amongst others.

The first retrospective exhibition of Philips Wouwerman's work took place in Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, and in The Hague, The Royal Picture Gallers Mauritshuis, 2009 / 2010.

Exhibition Catalogue, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel / Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2009 / 2010, ISBN 978-90-400-8592-5

In the 1630s Van Campen and Pieter Post designed the Mauritshuis in The Hague, a palace that is now home of a Royal Picture Gallery, and Van Campen alone designed the Netherlands ' first theatre, Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg.

* The Mauritshuis in The Hague ( 1633 ).

* Mauritshuis, Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague: Room for Art exhibition.

In contrast, a piece at the Hague representing a " Lady Reading a Letter as she crosses a Courtyard " ( Mauritshuis ) or a " Lady Consulting a Doctor ," ( in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam ), imitates de Hooch.

The authority for this is the Mauritshuis in The Hague, which owns the picture and attributes this result to recent scholarship.

* Mauritshuis, Royal Cabinet of Paintings, The Hague

The architects now setting the agenda in the Netherlands, masters such as Jacob van Kampen ( Amsterdam City Hall ), Pieter Post ( Mauritshuis in the Hague ) and Philip Vingboons, now favoured a style characterized by sobriety and restraint.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has the richest collection of Mierevelt's works, chief of them being the portraits of William, Philip William, Maurice, and Frederick Henry of Orange, and of the count palatine Frederick V. At the Mauritshuis in The Hague are the portraits of four princes of the house of Orange, of Frederick V as king of Bohemia, and of Louise de Coligny as a widow.

1660-1670, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague

The Mauritshuis was named after Prince John Maurice and was built between 1636 and 1641, the period when he was the governor of Dutch Brazil.

In 1704, most of the interior of the Mauritshuis was destroyed by fire.

In 1820, the Mauritshuis was bought by the Dutch state for the purpose of housing the Royal Cabinet of Paintings.

In 1822, the Mauritshuis was opened for the public and housed the Royal Cabinet of Paintings and the Royal Cabinet of Rarities.

The land was near the property of a good friend of Huygens, Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen, who built his house, the Mauritshuis, around the same time.

Embossed gilded leather hangings in a Dutch interior, ca 1730, painted by Philip van Dijk ( Mauritshuis )

* The Mauritshuis exhibits many paintings by Dutch masters, such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn and Paulus Potter.

His double portrait of the newly married Olycans hang side by side in the Mauritshuis, but many of his wedding portrait pairs have since been split up and are rarely seen together.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen | Prince John Maurice, namesake of the Mauritshuis, portrayed by Jan de Baen

De Zwart made several copies of works by 16th and 17th century masters in the Mauritshuis.

Relatively few of these unwieldy ephemera survive ; a rare surviving great-circle panorama is the Panorama Mesdag in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, showing the dunes of nearby Scheveningen.

Museon is a museum for science and culture in The Hague, Netherlands.

Starting as a private museum the ‘ Museum for Education ’ was taken over by the municipality of The Hague in 1920.

The Hague municipal museum

Housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, the panorama is a cylindrical painting ( also known as a Cyclorama ) more than 14 metres high and about 40 metres in diameter ( 120 metres in circumference ).

No public museum has finer and more numerous specimens than the Louvre, which boasts of four landscapes and six panels with still life ; then come Berlin and Amsterdam with four fruit and flower pieces ; then St Petersburg, Munich, Hanover, Dresden, the Hague, Brunswick, Vienna, Carlsruhe, Boston and Copenhagen.

The Municipal Museum () is an art museum, located in The Hague, Netherlands.

GEM ( museum for contemporary art ) and Fotomuseum Den Haag ( The Hague museum for photography ) are part of the Gemeentemuseum, though not housed in the same building and with a separate entrance fee.