File:Paulus Lesire - Vertrek van Koningin Henrietta Maria.jpg

Author	Paulus Lesire  (1611–after 1654 date QS:P,+1654–00–00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1654–00–00T00:00:00Z/9 )     Alternative names Paulus Lezier, Paulus le Sire Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker Date of birth/death March 1611 (baptised) after 1654 date QS:P,+1654-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1654-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Location of birth/death Dordrecht The Hague (?) Work period between circa 1631 and circa 1654 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1631-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1654-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Work location Dordrecht (1634), The Hague (1647-1650) Authority file : Q3372849 VIAF: 95882262 ULAN: 500032605 GND: 105035673X BPN: 59344986 KulturNav: 66d82c8e-3c32-409f-a4eb-654aef69d4ad creator QS:P170,Q3372849
Object type	painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description	Nederlands: Het vertrek van Koningin Henrietta Maria van Scheveningen naar Engeland op 26 februari 1643. (Coll. Stockholms Auktionsverk, Stockholm) English: Paulus Lesire, Dordrecht 1611-1658: The departure in 1643 from Scheveningen by the English queen Henrietta Maria. Signed and dated. Oil on canvas laid on panel. 97 x 140 cm. Inscribed on the stone: den Haegh het Hollants hoff weet opeen hooffs te leven De vriendschap die sy kryght die weet sy weer te geven. En schoon sij self wel eer haer koninhgschap verjoiegh Omdat het was te te....en sich te gaanck vroiegh S.........te min een Koninghin te vlyen........een goet gevoel en beter uyt te leyen 't was Koevenhoven die de Schuters voren gingh dit heught men en verget hoe ver men haer verfingh
Date	12 January 2014, 23:22:49
Source/Photographer	http://auktionsverket.com/auction/fine-arts/2013-06-04/1947-paulus-lesire-den-engelska-drottningen-henrietta/

In 1642 Henrietta Maria accompanied her daughter, the Princess Mary, on her journey to the Netherlands in order to conclude preparations for Mary's marriage to Willem, who was the son of the Stadhouder Frederik Hendrik, and who later became Willem II of the Netherlands. Negotiations had been in progress already since 1640. This marriage provoked much controversy in the Netherlands as its principle aim was to secure for Charles I the support of the Netherlands in his struggle against Parliament. The States General, on the other hand, were determined to pursue a policy of neutrality in this conflict. These conflicting demands on his loyalties were the source of some embarrassment to Frederik Hendrik and it was with some relief that he eventuelly bade the English Queen farewell in February 1943.

In spite of the subject and title of the picture, Henrietta Maria is given a somewhat subordinate role in the composition. The picture is conceived rather as a group portrait of the officers of the Haagse Schutterij. The central figure is Captain van Couwenhoven and the other figures on the right, also wearing orange sashes, are the captains Swart, van der Faes and Guyl. Interestingly, this subject is treated in an almost exactly similar manner in a picture by Sybrand van Beest, now in the Haags Historisch Museum (inv. 4/1862).

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