GERMAN SCHOOL, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

The sitter was the son of Count John V of Nassau Dillenburg and Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg. He inherited the lordship of Breda and the duchy of Brabant from his uncle Engelbert II of Nassau in 1504 and, the following year, was admitted to the Order of the Golden Fleece. He was Stadholder of Holland and Zeeland between 1515-1521. Henry served as an important military commander in the Netherlands in the first quarter of the sixteenth century and was a prominent figure at the court of Emperor Charles V.