Painting of the French painter Jacques Louis David “Contessa Vilaine XIIII with her daughter.” The size of the portrait is 95 x 76 cm, canvas, oil. Vilaine XIIII is an ancient Belgian clan, erected in 1758 by Maria Theresa in the Vicomte dignity.
The origin of the number XIIII, which is in the coat of arms of the Vilaine family from the XVII century, is explained differently. Vilaine XIIII – is known as one of the founders of the penitentiary prison system, which he set out in the “Mémoire sur les Moyens de corriger les malfaiteurs et faineants”. Vilein XIIII – Belgian statesman, secretary of the congress who elected King Leopold I, then a member of the Chamber of Deputies, an adherent of the clerical party, was an envoy at the Vatican and the courts of Tuscany and Naples.
In Dekker’s office, Wileyn XIIII served as Foreign Minister, on which he firmly rejected the demand for a change in the constitution in an anti-liberal spirit, indirectly from the Court of the Tyleri.
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