Triumvirate Assuming Power in the Name of the Prince of Orange, 21 November 1813, c.1828...

After the French were driven out of the Netherlands in November 1813, a provisional government was declared in The Hague at the home of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, seated in fur robe, who formed the triumvirate with Van der Duyn of Maasdam (behind him) and Count of Limburg Stirum pointing to the officers - Colonel Van Oldebarnevelt (called White Tullingh) with hand raised and Captain Heyns Van Bergen. Elias Canneman is at the table. Portraits of William of Orange and his half brother Maurice hang on the wall behind. A Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands was declared and William Frederick (1772-1843) was invited back from England to The Hague as sovereign prince, later becoming William I of the Netherlands.