Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Jacob Gerritsz Hoyngh and Lieutenant Nanningh Florisz Cloeck, Paulus Moreelse, 1616

Title(s)

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

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-C-623

Inscriptions / marks

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

Description

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.

Artist

• painter: Paulus Moreelse (signed by artist)

Dating

1616

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

• canvas
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

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

What

• land forces (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia)
• anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait

When

• 1616 - 1616

Where

• Amsterdam

Who

• Jacob Gerritsz. Hoyngh

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan Mar-1899

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• De oude Meesters van de stad Amsterdam : schilderijen tot 1800, p. 229
• Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 287, 288
• De 250 rijksten van de Gouden Eeuw : kapitaal, macht, familie en levensstijl, Kees Zandvliet, Mariëlle Hageman, Gijs van der Ham, Clé Lesger, p. 206 (afb.), cat.nr. 115