Schutters van Wijk V onder kapitein Cornelis de Graeff en luitenant Hendrick Lauwrensz.

The cream of Amsterdam’s artists are hired for the portraits in the arquebusiers’ new great hall, Jacob Backer is one of them. His painting hangs on the same wall as The Night Watch and Nicolaes Pickenoy’s civic guard portrait. The captain of this company is Cornelis de Graeff, the man sitting on the left holding the baton. He is brother-in-law to Frans Banninck Cocq (the captain in The Night Watch) and serves as burgomaster many times.

Schutters van Wijk V onder kapitein Cornelis de Graeff en luitenant Hendrick Lauwrensz.

The cream of Amsterdam’s artists are hired for the portraits in the arquebusiers’ new great hall, Jacob Backer is one of them. His painting hangs on the same wall as The Night Watch and Nicolaes Pickenoy’s civic guard portrait. The captain of this company is Cornelis de Graeff, the man sitting on the left holding the baton. He is brother-in-law to Frans Banninck Cocq (the captain in The Night Watch) and serves as burgomaster many times.