The 23 Artworks of Jacob Adriaensz Backer

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Jacob Adriaensz Backer - Officers and other Civic Guardsmen of the V District in Amsterdam under the command of Captain Cornelis de Graeff and Lieutenant Hendrick Lauwrensz, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, 1642Officers and other Civic Guardsmen of the V District in Amsterdam under the command of Captain Cornelis de Graeff and Lieutenant Hendrick Lauwrensz, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, 1642Jacob Adriaensz Backer

This civic guard piece was the second executed by Jacob Backer. His earlier portrait in this genre was dated 1638 and adorned the vestibule of the Kloveniersdoelen (the headquarters of the arquebusiers’ civic guard), but is now, unfortunately, lost.8 The present picture was also commissioned for tha...

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Jacob Adriaensz Backer - Portrait of the Regents of the Nieuwezijds Institute for the Outdoor Relief of the Poor, Amsterdam, c. 1650, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, c. 1650Portrait of the Regents of the Nieuwezijds Institute for the Outdoor Relief of the Poor, Amsterdam, c. 1650, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, c. 1650Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Since the fourteenth century, overseers of the poor had been providing support for officially registered paupers who did not live in a charitable foundation. That assistance had traditionally been supplied by the clergy, but the city authorities took over responsibility for it in the early seventeen...


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