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

Govert Flinck (signed by artist), 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.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-C-371
  • Dimensionssupport: height 338.7 cm x width 242.5 cm, outer size: height 365.5 cm (support incl. frame) x width 268.5 cm (support incl. frame) x depth 10.5 cm (support incl. frame), total: weight 109 kg
  • Physical characteristicsoil on canvas

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • 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 (former title)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-C-371

  • Description

    Het korporaalschap van kapitein Albert Bas en luitenant Lucas Conijn, 1645. Schuttersstuk waarin de leden van de schutterij staan opgesteld in een verhoogde galerij. Bas en Conijn zitten rechts onderaan de trap met wandelstokken in de hand. De andere schutters hebben wapens (hellebaard en geweren) en vaandels bij zich.

  • Inscriptions / marks

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

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Creation

  • Creation

    painter: Govert Flinck (signed by artist)

  • Dating

    1645

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    • support: height 338.7 cm x width 242.5 cm
    • outer size: height 365.5 cm (support incl. frame) x width 268.5 cm (support incl. frame) x depth 10.5 cm (support incl. frame)
    • total: weight 109 kg

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  • Subject

  • Place

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    On loan from the City of Amsterdam

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    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

Documentation

    • Petra Jeroense, Govaert Flinck, Eine Künstlerbiographie, in: Niederdeutsche Beitrage zur Kunstgeschichte, Band 36, Berlijn, 1997, p. 80, 81 + afb.
    • Scheltema, 1879, p. 13, nr. 32
    • 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)
    • Jonathan; Tauber, Gwen Bikker, Odd men out : Govert Flinck and Joachim von Sandrart's civic guard portraits for the Kloveniersdoelen, uit: Simiolus : kunsthistorisch tijdschrift, 38, 2015-2016, 4, pagina 260-272 - p. 262, fig. 5, 8
    • A.Th. van Deursen, Mensen van klein vermogen, Amsterdam, 1992, p. 234 + afb.
    • Wagenaar, Amsterdam, 1762, II, p. 19
    • J. Bos, Capitaete Stucken, in: Jaarboek 88, Amstelodamum, 1996, p. 78
    • Van Dijk, Beschrijving, 1790, p. 98, nr. 52
    • Kunstkronijk, 1846, p. 4-12
    • Fuchs, 1968, p. 15, fig. 25
    • 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
    • Scheltema, Aemstels Oudheid II, 1856, p. 136

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