The Leeuwarden Series: Foreigners in the Service of the States-General Gaspard de Coligny III was a grandson of the eponymous French admiral and Huguenot,43 and a nephew of William the Silent’s fourth wife, Louise de Coligny, with whom he came to the northern Netherlands in 1602. The following year, aged 19, he received the commission of colonel of the first French regiment from the States-General. He took part in the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600) and the sieges of Sluis (1604), Mülheim (1605) and ’s-Hertogenbosch (1629), among others. In 1622, he became Field Marshal of France. In 1635, he led French troops in the northern Netherlands for the last time, and in 1641 retired from military life.44 The prototype for the present portrait has not been located. Judging by De Coligny’s apparent age and his dress, the prototype was probably executed between 1605 and 1615. The sitter in one of Van Ravesteyn’s officer portraits in the series probably executed for Maurits now in the collection of the Mauritshuis has been identified as Gaspard de Coligny on the basis of the present painting.45 The physiognomic similarities, however, are not as great as those in a later portrait by Van Mierevelt engraved by Willem Jacobsz Delff in 1631.46 Jonathan Bikker, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 386.