# Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine of Pfalz [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WERFF, Adriaen van der]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 76 x 54 cm ## Commentary Johann Wilhalm appointed Werff court painter in 1697 at the annual salary of 4.000 guilders with the understanding that the artist would spend six months of the year at his court in Düsseldorf. The elector remained van der Werff's Maecenas until his death in 1716. In 1703 the elector created van der Werff a knight. Werff was commissioned to paint the portrait of the elector as well as that of his wife, Maria Anna Loisia de'Medici. ## Related artworks - [Amorous Couple Spied upon by Children]() - [Amorous Shepherds]() - [Children Playing before a Hercules Group \(detail\)]() - [Children Playing before a Hercules Group]() - [Flora with Putti Strewing Flowers \(detail\)]() - [Flora with Putti Strewing Flowers]() - [Flute Playing Shepherd]() - [Holy Family]() - [Lot and his Daughters]() - [Maria Anna Loisia de'Medici]() - [Sarah Bringing Hagar to Abraham]() - [Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()