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.

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.

* the Mauritshuis, a museum in The Hague, which was built by John Maurice of Nassau

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

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.

* 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.

File: Frans Hals-Portrait de Jacob Pietersz Olycan. jpg | Portrait of Jacob Olycan ( 1596-1638 ), 1625, Mauritshuis.

File: Frans_Hals_-_Portrait_d ' Aletta_Hanemans. jpg | Portrait of Aletta Hanemans ( 1606-1653 ), bride of Jacob Olycan, 1625, Mauritshuis.

There are also works of Hans Holbein in the collection in the Mauritshuis.

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.

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

File: The feast of the gods at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. jpg | Feast of the Gods at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, 1638 ( Mauritshuis, 17 )

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.

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.

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

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.

Much as he abhorred slavery, Lincoln was always willing to concede to each `` slave state '' the right to decide independently whether to continue or end it.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

and by the second night he was in a state of panic: he could see nothing out of the afflicted eye.

The market was not far and, once there, the doctor's sense of immediacy left him and he fell into a state of harmony with the birds around him.

At least one state vehicle was in existence in 1917.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.

The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.

Using privately-owned vehicles was a personal hardship for such employees, and the matter of providing state transportation was felt perfectly justifiable.