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Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_of_Solms-Braunfels" class="extiw" title="en:Amalia of Solms-Braunfels">Amalia of Solms-Braunfels</a> as widow; allegory on the memory of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Henry,_Prince_of_Orange" class="extiw" title="en:Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange">Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange</a>. The princess is dressed in black with an opened book on her lap. On her right an allegorical figure wearing a helmet and holding a palm branch. A second allegorical figure, Hope, is kneeling in front of the princess holding an anchor and a flowering orange twig. Over them an angel flies pointing at the sky. In the background a monument with the statue of Frederick Henry in armor, being crowned with a laurel wreath by a flying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putto" class="extiw" title="en:Putto">putto</a>. Two corners of the monument are adorned with statues of Justice and Fortitude (two of the four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_virtues" class="extiw" title="en:Cardinal virtues">cardinal virtues</a>). In the distance a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)" class="extiw" title="en:Phoenix (mythology)">phoenix</a> arising from the ashes of its predecessor.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Govert_Flinck" class="extiw" title="w:en:Govert Flinck"><span title="painter from the Northern Netherlands (1615-1660)">Govert Flinck</span></a>
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1654<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1654-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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