De Wit worked from likenesses of actual monarchs to produce his portraits.
Although planes were strafing, De Wit decided to risk the trip.
The child had been decapitated, but De Wit recognized the body as a neighbor's son.
As De Wit knelt by the boy, a doctor arrived.
"He told me not to hope anymore," De Wit remembers, "because our son was going to die."
De Wit has been sentenced to 150 hours community service or 75 days in jail.
De Wit played 103 matches in four seasons, scoring 23 goals.
De Wit died in 1755, at the age of 77.
Under this name De Wit and his firm became internationally known.
De Wit published no fewer than 158 land maps and 43 charts on separate folio sheets.