Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Jacob Gerritsz Hoyngh and Lieutenant Nanningh Florisz Cloeck

Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Jacob Gerritsz Hoyngh and Lieutenant Nanningh Florisz Cloeck

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Schuttersstuk van de Kloveniersdoelen met het korporaalschap van kapitein Jacob Gerritsz Hoyngh en luitenant Nanningh Florisz. Cloeck. Veertien figuren in twee rijen, de bovenste achter een balustrade. Beneden in het midden de vaandrig, andere schutters met hellebaarden.

signature and date, upper left, on the base of the stone ball (P and M ligated): ‘PMoreelse fecit Aº 1616’

painter: Paulus Moreelse (signed by artist)

1616

oil on canvas

• support: height 169 cm x width 333.5 cm
• outer size: depth 11 cm (support incl. frame)

1616

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Public domain

Commissioned by or for the sitters for the Kloveniersdoelen (headquarters of the arquebusiers’ civic guard); first mentioned in the Kloveniersdoelen, 1653 (‘Ibid. [op de grootte Heere-kamer, sijnde raecx aen de brugh, boven de deur] Jacob Gerritsz Hoing capn, Nanning Florisz Cloeck Lut, ao. 1616. geschildert.’);{Schaep 1653, p. 138, no. 27.} transferred to the Small Council of War Chamber in the town hall by 1758;{Van Dyk 1758, pp. VI, 55-56, no. 26.} on loan to the museum from the City of Amsterdam since 1899

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