Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... No. 192. KING WILLIAM III. BORN 1650, DieD 1702. BY Wissing. To the knees, life size, in armour, standing towards the right; holding the baton downwards, in his right hand; the left resting on a helmet. White lace necktie, and pale blue scarf-like ribbon of the Garter, with oval badge pendent from it. The siege of a fortress is represented in the background to the right. A similar picture is at St. fanus's Palace. Canvas, 47 in. by 37 in. ILLIAM III., King of England and Prince of Orange, was the son of William II., Stadtholder of the United Netherlands, and Mary, daughter of Charles I. of England. He was born at The Hague, November 14th, 1650. His father died eight days before his birth, whereupon the StatesGeneral abolished the office of Stadtholder. The Prince of Orange landed at Brixham in 1688; defeated King James II. at the battle of the Boyne, 1690; died March 8th, 1702, at Kensington Palace. Lord Macaulay describes him as follows: -- 'The place which William Henry, Prince of Orange Nassau, occupies in the history of England and of mankind is so great, that it may be desirable to portray with some minuteness the strong lineaments of his character. 'Both in body and in mind he was older than other men of the same age. Indeed it might be said that he had never been young. His external appearance is almost as well known to us as to his own captains and councillors. Sculptors, painters, and medallists exerted their utmost skill in the work of transmitting his features to posterity; and his features were such as no artist could fail to seize, and such as, once seen, could never be forgotten. His name at once calls up before us a slender and feeble frame, a lofty and ample forehead, a nose curved like the beak of an eagle, an eye...
