Oranjewoud (Estate)
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Landgoed Oranjewoud is an estate in Oranjewoud in the Province of Friesland in the Netherlands. Until 1803, the Oranjewoud Palace of the Frisian branch of the Oranje-Nassau family stood here.
Oranjewoud - The current house
Museum Belvédère
Oranjewoud by C Pronk (1754)
Oranjewoud by P. Fouquet Junior (1765)
Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel
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Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel was a Dutch regent, Princess of Orange by marriage to John William Friso, Prince of Orange, and regent of the Netherlands during the minority of her son and her grandson.
Oranjewoud (Estate)
…Friso, Prince of Orange inherited it and commissioned Daniel Marot to design Oranjewoud Palace there. Construction began in 1708. The prince's wife, Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, continued the project after her husband's death. This palace was never fully completed, only the side wings were completed. After a period of neglect…
Portrait by Lancelot Volders, 1710
Marie Louise (left) with her two children, c. 1725
Anonymous Netherlands, Portrait of Maria Louisa, Princess of Orange, mid 1700s, engraving