Officers of the Civic Guard of St Adrian

portrait

A colonel, three captains, two lieutenants, three sergeants, a reserve officer and the troop's servant are portrayed on the staircase of their shooting gallery, the St Adrian Gallery. A small part of the guard portrait painted by Cornelis van Haarlem in 1583 is visible through the window.

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Officers of the Civic Guard of St Adrian

About the Artist

Hendrick Gerritsz Pot

1580 – 1657

Dutch painter, a pupil of Karl van Mander. He probably came into contact with Frans Hals, whose large-scale genre scenes he sometimes imitated. His artistic production, however, was oriented towards portraits and small-sized genre paintings. The small genre scenes in carefully worked-out interiors show their debt to Willem Buytewech.

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