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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

* Rudi Ekkart and Quentin Buvelot ( eds ), Dutch Portraits, The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals, 2007, Mauritshuis / National Gallery / Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, ISBN 978-1-85709-362-9

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.

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

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.

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.

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Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.