Hendrik Gerritsz Pot
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Hendrik Gerritsz Pot was a Dutch Golden Age painter, who lived and painted in Haarlem, where he was an officer of the militia, or schutterij. Dutch artist Frans Hals painted Pot in militia sash in Hal
Portrait of Hendrik Gerritsz Pot by Frans Hals, detail of The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1633
Flora's Wagon of Fools by Hendrik Pot (c. 1637)
Officers of the Civic Guard of St Adrian
Jacob van de Merckt and his wife Petronella Witsen (ca. 1628)
Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech
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Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is one of the early specialists in the merry company type of subject in Dutch genre painting. His contemporaries
Hendrik Gerritsz Pot
…painted group schutterstuk portraits, such as The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1630. He was also influenced by painter and engraver Willem Buytewech. Pot was commissioned in London to paint portraits of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria in 1632; the results now hang in the Royal Collection…
Willem Buytewech's Merry Company 1620
The Leiden anatomical theatre during a dissection.