Maria Overlander van Purmerland
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Maria Overlander van Purmerland was a noble from the Dutch Golden Age and Free Lady of Purmerland and Ilpendam. She was married to Frans Banninck Cocq, who was the captain of the 1642 painting The Night Watch by Rembrandt.
Maria Overlander in 1630
Coat of arms of her father Volkert Overlander
Coat of arms of her husband Frans Banninck Cocq
Frans Banninck Cocq
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Frans Banninck Cocq, free lord of Purmerland and Ilpendam was a knight, burgemeester (mayor) and military person of Amsterdam in the mid-17th century, the Dutch Golden Age. He belonged to the wealthy and powerful Dutch patriciate, the regenten, and is best known as the central figure in Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch.
Coat of arms Frans Banninck Cocq, drawing by Pieter Jansz., 1648, Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam
Banninck Cocq lived in "De Dolphijn", Singel 140
The Amsterdam archery militia whose patron saint was St. Sebastian, in 1653 by Bartholomeus van der Helst. Cocq is at the left.
Portrait of Frans Banninck Cocq, captioned Dr. Frans Banning Cocq probably comes from Pieter de Graeff