Confrerie Pictura
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The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there.
The Boterwaag on the Prinsegracht in Den Haag. The leftmost side was the original building from 1650 with the swan above the door. The painters moved in when the butter weighing moved to the larger right side extension.
Koorenhuis on Prinsegracht 27, built in 1662–1663, now an arts center, only the facade and hall remain of the original building.
Prinsegracht in The Hague, ± 1850, by Jan Weissenbruch
Engraving by Simon Fokke after Aart Schouman of a drawing lesson from live model at the "Teken-Akademi der Haagsche Kunstschilders", first published in 1750 in Johan van Gool's "Nieuwe Schouburg
Boterwaag
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The Boterwaag is a former weigh house for butter in The Hague, Netherlands. The right half is a café.
Confrerie Pictura
…permanently at their meeting room. As soon as a work had been sold it had to be replaced by a new one. The Confrerie started meeting upstairs at the Boterwaag building, where butter was traded at the Prinsegracht. They paid rent by donating a painting to the city council. The Confrerie was governed by a deacon…
Inside the right half before restoration activity in 1980.