REMBRANDT, THE NIGHT WATCH Jan Pietersen Bronckhorst BU Proof Medal 40mm 28g. B4

Jan Pietersen Bronckhorst is an ambitious man who manages to work his way up from a humble sheep shearer to a cloth merchant - but that is not the reason why we still know him today. His name turns up regularly in Amsterdam archives. Thanks to his now famous statement about payments concerning the Nightwatch, we know that sixteen militia members from District II paid around one hundred guilders to Rembrandt to be included in the painting. “Some paid slightly more, others a bit less, depending on their position in the painting”, comments Jan Pietersen Bronckhorst, himself holding one of the least prominent positions in the painting.

The Night Watch is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best-known painting in its collection.
The painting depicts the company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburgh, surrounded by sixteen of their men. The other people who appear in the painting were added by Rembrandt with an eye to enhancing the composition.

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