How is the Rembrandt painting 'The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out' more commonly known?
"Willem van Ruytenburch Willem van Ruytenburch (baptized 13 August 1600 - 1657) of Amsterdam was a lieutenant to Captain Frans Banning Cocq in the mid-17th century. He is best known as the lieutenant in Rembrandt's masterpiece ""The Night Watch"". Although known as ""The Night Watch"", this is not the original title; at that time it was in fact unusual to title paintings but if indeed it had a name, the more correct one would be ""The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch"". The painting is notable, among other things, for its huge size: approximately ."
"and shadow (tenebrism) and the perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military group portrait. The painting was completed in 1642, at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Frans Banning Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash). With effective use of sunlight and shade, Rembrandt leads the eye to the three most important characters among the crowd: the two gentlemen in the centre (from whom the painting gets its original title),"
"paintings but if indeed it had a name, the more correct one would be ""The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch"". The painting is notable, among other things, for its huge size: approximately 3.35 m x 4.26 m (11 ft by 14 ft). Banninck Cocq is also depicted in the Bartholomeus van der Helst portrait of The Governors of the Longbow Civic Guards, 1653, now in the Amsterdam Museum. Frans Banninck Cocq was buried on 6 January 1655; his tomb chapel is located in the Oude Kerk. Frans Banninck Cocq Frans Banninck Cocq (sometimes incorrectly"
"Meagre Company The Meagre Company, or The company of Captain Reinier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw, refers to the only militia group portrait, or ""schutterstuk"", painted by Frans Hals outside of Haarlem, and today is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum, where it is considered one of its main attractions of the ""Honor Gallery"". Hals was unhappy about commuting to Amsterdam to work on the painting and, unlike his previous group portraits, was unable to deliver it on time. The sitters contracted Pieter Codde to finish the work. Hals was originally contracted in"
"group portraits for other Amsterdam municipal organizations. Meagre Company The Meagre Company, or The company of Captain Reinier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw, refers to the only militia group portrait, or ""schutterstuk"", painted by Frans Hals outside of Haarlem, and today is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum, where it is considered one of its main attractions of the ""Honor Gallery"". Hals was unhappy about commuting to Amsterdam to work on the painting and, unlike his previous group portraits, was unable to deliver it on time. The sitters contracted Pieter Codde to finish"
"was a common practice before the 19th century. This alteration resulted in the loss of two characters on the left side of the painting, the top of the arch, the balustrade, and the edge of the step. This balustrade and step were key visual tools used by Rembrandt to give the painting a forward motion. A 17th-century copy of the painting by Gerrit Lundens at the National Gallery, London shows the original composition. The painting was commissioned (around 1639) by Captain Banning Cocq and seventeen members of his ""Kloveniers"" (civic militia guards). Eighteen names appear on a shield, painted circa"
"various ways, including a ""Democritus"" and a ""Heraclitus"" copied very brilliantly by Rembrandt aged around thirteen, when he was training with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. These were perhaps tronies, the Dutch genre of imaginary portraits of mythological or historical persons. A van Mander story describes a peasant trying to explain a Ketel ""Danae"" to his wife, and getting it confused with an Annunciation. Ketel's 1588 ""The Company of Captain Rosecrans"", the earliest Dutch group portrait where the figures are shown standing and full length, ""greatly influenced later artists of militia pieces, such as Rembrandt in his ""Night Watch"" of 1642.""—to"
"for its informal outside ""picnic style"", which became quite popular. At the time it was painted, Hals was at the peak of his fame and had already made a successful group portrait with 12 persons, ""The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616"". Gijsbert Claesz van Campen Gijsbert Claesz van Campen (c.1580 – 1648), was a Dutch cloth merchant of Haarlem who is most famous today for his family portrait painted by Frans Hals. The sitters in this painting have been identified by Pieter Biesboer as the family of Gijsbert Claesz. van Campen and is"
"of Gainsborough, Saskatchewan in the 1970s. During his term as Mayor, he was instrumental in having a swimming pool built. There's a little Rembrandt in paintings by William Hobbs, and fans and spectators always look for in his work. Rembrandt is the nickname of the little Jack Russell Terrier that often appears in Williams railway paintings. It's a nod to the master Rembrandt, who placed a similar dog, darkly lit, in his most famous painting, ""The Night Watch"". But in Hobbs's paintings, the dog doesn't scurry around musketeers in plumed hats and sashed waists but around old steam engine trains"
"as part of a First World War commemorative set. The Kensingtons at Laventie The Kensingtons at Laventie is a large oil painting on glass by Eric Kennington completed in 1915 that depicts a First World War platoon of British troops. The group depicted was Kennington's own infantry platoon; Platoon No 7, C Company, the 1/13th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Kensington), who were commonly known as the Kensingtons. Kennington completed the painting having been invalided out of the British Army due to wounds suffered on the Western Front in early 1915. The painting is Kennington's most famous work. It"
"The Descent from the Cross (Rembrandt, 1634) Descent from the Cross (1634), by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, is one of his many religious scenes. The piece is oil on canvas and now located in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The piece is intriguing stylistically in its unique figural composition and variety of lighting effects. Aside from composition, the painting is notable in terms of its historical context, from the connection between its subject matter and Rembrandt’s family situation to its endangered location during World War II. The ""Descent from the Cross"" is a classic scene in religious themed art"
"Redleaf, 1836 (Sm.). Sale - W. Wells, London, May 12, 1848 (Lb. 252, C.L. Eastlake); according to a MS. note by Sm. in his own copy of his catalogue. In the collection of Sir C. L. Eastlake, London ; bought from his widow in 1867 for the National Gallery (for Lb.1200). In the National Gallery, London, 1911 catalogue, No. 775"" Dirck Pesser Dirck Jansz Pesser (c. 1585 - buried September 3, 1651) was a Dutch brewer from Rotterdam, best known today for his portrait by Rembrandt. He was an important member of the Rotterdam Remonstrant community in the early 17th"
"group portraits commissioned by the wealthy part-time officers of city militia companies, of which Rembrandt's ""Night Watch"" is much the most famous, although its narrative setting is atypical of the genre. Most examples just show the officers lined up as though about to eat dinner, and some show them actually eating it. Otherwise group portraits of officers are rather surprisingly rare until the 19th century. Most surviving sculpture of battle scenes from antiquity is in stone reliefs, covered above. Renaissance artists and patrons were keen to revive this form, which they mostly did in much smaller scenes in stone or"
"A ray of light illumines the town. In the sky are masses of storm-cloud. Canvas. Sale. Comte de Morny, Paris, May 24, 1852, No. 24 (3100 francs)."" According to Vereniging Rembrandt, the steeples in this painting are from left to right: Leidsepoort, Utrechtsepoort, Westerkerk, Stadhuis (Dam), Oude Kerk, Zuiderkerk, Portugees-Joodse Synagoge, 's Lands zeemagazijn, Weesperpoort, Oosterkerk. All of these buildings had been recently designed and built under the supervision of the city architect Daniël Stalpaert. This scene is very similar to other paintings Ruisdael made in this period of Amsterdam and these often served as inspiration for later painters of"
"Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol (1598 – 1667) was a Dutch calligrapher best known today for his portraits by Rembrandt. He became a French schoolmaster and lived in Haarlem in the Koningsstraat under the ""Crowned Pen"" in 1617. He then moved to the Begijnestraat behind the St. Bavochurch by the clock tower in 1624. By 1628 he had moved to Amsterdam where he ran a school in 1628 called ‘In den Hertog van Saxen', near the 'Jan Roodenpoortstoren’. He married for the second time as a widower on 19 June 1644 in Amsterdam to Grietje Andries. He"
"put out the fire. In another drawing, now at the Courtauld Gallery in London, we see ships in a storm near the Dutch coast. One of the ships has been beached and the local populace is busy looting the ships' cargo. In 1953, the Rotterdam city archives held an exhibition of drawing and watercolour paintings by Langendijk, collaborator Christoffel Meijer and son Jan Anthonie Langendijk. Work by Langendijk was also included in the exhibition ""Hartstochtelijk Verzameld — Beroemde Tekeningen in 18de-Eeuwse Hollandse Collecties"" (""Passionately Collected — Famous Drawings in 18th-Century Collections"") at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem in 2001 and"
"Norwich, England. In seventeenth century Dutch society, Protestant ministers were celebrated public figures. The portraits of Elison and his wife, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston were probably commissioned by their son, a wealthy Amsterdam merchant. Such full-length portraits were substantially more costly than the more common bust and half-length formats. Rembrandt painted only three full-length portrait pairs, all about 1634, when he was trying to establish himself as an independent master. Like the sons of many established Émigré families in Kampen, Dirk Couché pursued a career as an officer in the Dutch navy. Since the founding"
"the collection of the Mauritshuis, but is on long-term loan to the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, since 1999. City-scapes are relatively rare in Ruisdael's work. The foreground of the painting, depicting the north side of the Dam, shows groups of people. Merchandise is on display. Behind the Dam is the Damrak, bordered on both sides by rows of houses, and with cargo ships moored at its quay. To the right behind the building is the tower of the Oude Kerk [Old Church]. In the middle of the Damrak is the Papenbrug; sails are hanging to dry over the railings. In the"
"is no objective evidence at all to prove this though. Maybe this opinion has been inspired by the fact that the painters were neighbours in the Sint Antoniebreestraat in Amsterdam (nowadays called Jodenbreestraat, still housing the Rembrandt House Museum). Boursse's financial position will not have been good, since in 1661 he sailed with the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, on the ship ""Amersfoort"". It travelled to Ceylon (nowadays called Sri Lanka). Boursse drew the inhabitants, landscapes and city views, which have been preserved in an album which can be found in the print room of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. In 1663, the painter"
"is a 1529 triptych by Dirck Jacobsz. for the Kloveniersdoelen, now in the Amsterdam Museum. Group portraits for the Voetboogdoelen were commissioned from as early as the 1530s. Frans Hals was commissioned in 1633 to paint a group portrait for the Voetboogdoelen, ""The Meagre Company"". However, Hals took years to complete it and, when the painting was still unfinished in 1636, Pieter Codde was contracted to complete it. Now on display in the Rijksmuseum, ""The Meagre Company"" is one of Hals' best-known works and was an important inspiration for Vincent van Gogh. Two group portraits were commissioned for the ""Oude"
"the hierarchy of genres in the 17th century (a view Rembrandt shared), and the Batavian revolt was regarded, and romanticised, as a precursor of the recently ended war against the Spanish. In 1659, when John Maurice of Nassau, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, her two daughters and two daughters-in-law came to see the new building, the council commissioned twelve paintings from Rembrandt's ex-pupil Govert Flinck to fill all the large spaces using a programme drawn up by the poet Joost van den Vondel, but Flink died in 1660 before completing any of the works. The work was then shared out by the"
"can be seen through the window, including a building at Singel 460 designed and built by Philip Vingboons (nowadays the Odeon club and restaurant). The second group portrait commissioned for the Old Hall of the Voetboogdoelen was ""The company of Captain Joan Huydecoper"" by Govert Flinck. The painting is now in the Amsterdam Museum. From about 1683, the group portraits were removed from the ""doelens"", beginning with those in the former Voetboogdoelen. Most were hung in Amsterdam's city hall on Dam Square (now the Royal Palace of Amsterdam), others sold at auction. Many of these paintings, including Rembrandt's ""The Night"
"he saw. Ernst van de Wetering declared in 2006 that ""The Night Watch"" ""... in a certain sense fails ... Rembrandt wanted to paint the chaos of figures walking through each other, yet also aim for an organised composition."" Winning a commission for a schutterstuk was a highly competitive task, with young portrait painters competing with each other to impress members of the schutterij. Often it helped if the painter became a member of the schuttersgilde, and Frans Hals, Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, and Caesar van Everdingen were all members of schuttersgildes who won such commissions. The commission itself was a"
"the collection of the Rijksmuseum Twenthe: Girl in a Blue Dress Girl in a Blue Dress, also called Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue () or simply Portrait of a Girl (), is an oil painting by Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. It was acquired by the museum in 1928 as a gift from the . In 1912 the wealthy merchant and art collector Mari Paul Voûte (1856-1928) became chairman of the Vereniging Rembrandt. At the end of World War I, when Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg was forced to abdicate and needed"
"The Abduction of Europa (Rembrandt) Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's The Abduction of Europa (1632) is one of his rare mythological subject paintings. The piece is oil on canvas and now located in the J. Paul Getty Museum. The inspiration for the painting is Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"", part of which tells the tale of Zeus's seduction and capture of Europa. The painting shows a coastal scene with Europa being carried away in rough waters by a bull while her friends remain on shore with expressions of horror. Rembrandt combined his knowledge of classical literature with the interests of the patron in order"
"construction projects such as the St. Peter's Basilica. However, it has also been viewed as a celebration of technical progress, which would herald a better and more organized world. Marten van Valckenborch Marten van Valckenborch or Marten van Valckenborch the Elder (1535 in Leuven – 1612 in Frankfurt), was a Flemish Renaissance painter, mainly known for his landscapes and city scapes. He also made allegorical paintings and some portraits. After commencing his career in the Spanish Netherlands, he later migrated to Frankfurt in Germany where he and other members of his extended family of artists played an important role in"
"of the Flemish trio that included Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck. Frederik Hendrik rides on a triumphal chariot, carried as a god, as bringer of peace and as one who has manifested prosperity shown in olive branches and cornucopias. On both sides of the painting are portraits of men carrying products from the West and East Indies. This makes the prince appear as if he is solely responsible for military victories as well as the immense wealth of the Republic. The work was made with intensive complexity. Even today scholars discuss the many references Jordaens included in the"
"original location, today's Eglantierstaat 52. Anslo became a pamphleteer during the 1625-1628 Amsterdam Mennonite conflict between Nittert Obbes, Hans de Ries and others and published an anonymous pamphlet as an attempt to prevent a schism. Anslo died in Amsterdam. Cornelis Claesz Anslo Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 – 1646) was a Dutch Mennonite minister, known best today for his portraits by Rembrandt. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo (from Oslo). His older brothers Claes, Jan, and Reyer all became syndics of the drapeniers guild. His brother Reyer's son Reynier or"
"style, which shows the influence of Frans Floris. A few genre paintings have been attributed to Frans Pourbus. These paintings fall mainly in the genre of the so-called merry companies. The key work is the (Museum Mayer van den Bergh). It depicts a merry company known as a ""buitenpartij"", i.e. a scene of people from the middle class enjoying an outdoor party rather than the lowly peasant scenes that were often the subject of genre paintings. Another example is the (At Lempertz auction of 21 November 2009, lot 1018B). The male and female participants in this composition are wearing clothes"
"1800 shows more space above the sitters' heads. The Shipbuilder and his Wife The Shipbuilder and his Wife is a 1633 painting by Rembrandt. The sitters were identified in 1970 as Jan Rijcksen (1560/2-1637) and his wife Griet Jans Rijcksen. Rijcksen was a shareholder in the Dutch East India Company, and became its master shipbuilder in 1620. The painting has been in the Royal Collection since 1811. At this relatively early date, Rembrandt was accomplished at depicting the natural surfaces of wood, leather, skin, and hair, and he had become a fashionable portrait painter. Rather than making the usual pair"
"Dirck Pesser Dirck Jansz Pesser (c. 1585 - buried September 3, 1651) was a Dutch brewer from Rotterdam, best known today for his portrait by Rembrandt. He was an important member of the Rotterdam Remonstrant community in the early 17th century. He was the son of the brewer Jan Dammasz Pesser, who had founded the brewery ""De Witte Leeuw"" (""The White Lion"") at the end of the 16th century at the Leuvehaven in Rotterdam. On December 18, 1612 Dirck married Haesje Jacobs van Cleyburg. Dirck's older brother Dammas took over his father's brewery, and Dirk himself founded in 1619 the"
"Cornelis Claesz Anslo Cornelis Claesz Anslo (1592 – 1646) was a Dutch Mennonite minister, known best today for his portraits by Rembrandt. Anslo was born in Amsterdam as the fourth son of the Norwegian cloth merchant Claes Claesz. Anslo (from Oslo). His older brothers Claes, Jan, and Reyer all became syndics of the drapeniers guild. His brother Reyer's son Reynier or Reyer became a poet. Cornelis married Aeltje Gerritsdr. Schouten in 1611 and was called 14 July 1617 to the Mennonite group in Amsterdam known as the Waterlanders. The poet Joost van den Vondel was deacon of his church and"
"The Shipbuilder and his Wife The Shipbuilder and his Wife is a 1633 painting by Rembrandt. The sitters were identified in 1970 as Jan Rijcksen (1560/2-1637) and his wife Griet Jans Rijcksen. Rijcksen was a shareholder in the Dutch East India Company, and became its master shipbuilder in 1620. The painting has been in the Royal Collection since 1811. At this relatively early date, Rembrandt was accomplished at depicting the natural surfaces of wood, leather, skin, and hair, and he had become a fashionable portrait painter. Rather than making the usual pair of separate husband-and-wife paintings, like his more typical"