The fourteen year old Prince William of Orange is depicted in full armour, wearing the chain of the Garter and holding a baton in his hand and standing beside a plinth upon rests his helmet and gauntlet. In 1664 Hanneman was paid 500 gulden for two identical portraits (see RCIN 405640) of the Prince of Orange, which were to be sent to England. They were reported to have been considered by the recipients a great success and in return Queen Henrietta Maria resolved to persuade Charles II to sit for a portrait which could be sent in return. This appears to be the primary version and was probably intended for Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York. It is richer in quality than the second Royal Collection portrait and shows a number of pentimenti in the position of the stone carving below the ledge. The painting has been enlarged along the bottom edge, probably c.1700 to extend a three quarter length portrait into a full length. Hanneman was born and probably trained in The Hague, but was in England by 1626 until c.1637 where he was deeply influenced by Van Dyck. After his return to The Hague his associations with the English court made him understandably popular with the House of Orange and later with the exiled Stuarts and their followers.