Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of District XVIII in Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Albert Dircksz Bas and Lieutenant Lucas Pietersz Conijn

• Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of District XVIII in Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Albert Dircksz Bas and Lieutenant Lucas Pietersz Conijn
• The Company of Captain Albert Bas and Lieutenant Lucas Conijn, 1645

The Company of Captain Albert Bas and Lieutenant Lucas Conijn, 1645

SK-C-371

signature and date, lower left, on the step beneath the foot of Lieutenant Conijn: ‘G. flinck. fe: / A.º 1645’

Govert Flinck (1615 - 1660). The company of Captain Alber t Bas, 1645. Gover t Flinck has arranged his subjects in a circle around Captain Albert Bas. He did not have a great deal of choice, due to the fixed dimensions of his painting. The size was dictated by the spot for which the work was intended: the relatively narrow space next to the fireplace in the Kloveniersdoelen. The Amsterdam civic guard had recently expanded its headquarters, and the walls of the enormous new doelenzaal or militia hall were decorated with six large civic guard paintings. In addition to this work by Flinck, they included the Night-watch by Rembrandt and civic guard works by Joachim von Sandrart and Bartholomeus van der Helst; all three are also hanging in this room. Painted for the Grand Hall of the Kloveniersdoelen (headquarters of the crossbowmen's civic guard), Amsterdam. On loan from the city of Amsterdam, 1885.

Kunstkronijk, 1846, p. 4-12

painter: Govert Flinck (signed by artist)

1645

olieverf op doek

• height 338.7 cm x width 242.5 cm
• height 365.5 cm x width 268.5 cm x depth 10.5 cm
• weight 109 kg

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Public domain

Commissioned by or for the sitters for the Great Hall of the Kloveniersdoelen, Amsterdam; first recorded in the Kloveniersdoelen, 1653 (`Ibid. [op de grootte kamer] aen Slijncke-sijde. Albert Bas Capn, Lucas Conijn Lut. gedaen bij Govert Flinck 1645´);{G. Schaep, `De schilderijen in de drie doelens te Amsterdam 1653´, transcr. in P. Scheltema, _Aemstel´s oudheid of gedenkwaardigheden van Amsterdam_, VII, Amsterdam 1885, pp. 121-41, esp. p. 135, no. 3.} transferred to the Burgomasters´ Chamber in the Town Hall on Dam Square, Amsterdam, 1753;{See N. Middelkoop, `De oude meesters van de stad Amsterdam´, in N. Middelkoop, G. Reichwein and J. van Gent, _De oude meesters van de stad Amsterdam: Schilderijen tot 1800_, coll. cat. Amsterdam (Amsterdams Historisch Museum) 2008, pp. 16-55, esp. p. 23.} transferred to the house of Cornelis Sebille Roos (Trippenhuis), 29 Kloveniersburgwal, Amsterdam, 1808;{See H. Brugmans, _Van Raadhuis tot Paleis: Documenten betreffende den overgang van het Amsterdamsche Stadhuis tot Koninklijk Paleis_, Amsterdam 1913, p. 60.} transferred to the Prinsenhof, 195-99 Oudezijds Voorburgwal, Amsterdam, 1808;{See H. Brugmans, _Van Raadhuis tot Paleis: Documenten betreffende den overgang van het Amsterdamsche Stadhuis tot Koninklijk Paleis_, Amsterdam 1913, p. 60, note 2.} on loan from the City of Amsterdam to the museum since 1885

• Kunstkronijk, 1846, p. 4-12
• A.Th. van Deursen, Mensen van klein vermogen, Amsterdam, 1992, p. 234 + afb.
• Van Dijk, Beschrijving, 1790, p. 98, nr. 52
• Scheltema, 1879, p. 13, nr. 32
• R.B.F. van der Sloot en J.B. Kist, Iets over de degenvesten in Hoorn rond het jaar 1650, in: Armamentaria V, 1970, p. 17, noot 11
• J. Bos, Capitaete Stucken, in: Jaarboek 88, Amstelodamum, 1996, p. 78
• D.C. Meyer, in: O.H., 1889, p. 47
• H. Lootsma, 'Tracing a pose: Govert Flinck and the emergence of the van Dyckian mode of portraiture', in: Simiolus 33 (2007/2008), nr. 4, p. 227, afb. 8, 9 (detail), 11 (detail), 13 (detail)
• Scheltema, Aemstels Oudheid II, 1856, p. 136
• Petra Jeroense, Govaert Flinck, Eine Künstlerbiographie, in: Niederdeutsche Beitrage zur Kunstgeschichte, Band 36, Berlijn, 1997, p. 80, 81 + afb.
• Fuchs, 1968, p. 15, fig. 25
• Wagenaar, Amsterdam, 1762, II, p. 19

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