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Willem Claesz Vooght (1572–1630), was a mayor of Haarlem best known today for the portrait painted of him by the painter
File:Frans Hals - Cornelia Claesdr Vooght - WGA11112.jpg, Cornelia Claesdr Voogt, wife of Nicolaes van der Meer
File:Portrait of Maritge Claesdr. Voogt (1577-1644) by Frans Hals 027.jpg, Maritge Claesdr Voogt, wife of Pieter Olycan
Portrait of Willem Claesz Vooght
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Willem Claesz Vooght (1572–1630), was a mayor of Haarlem best known today for the portrait painted of him by the painter Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, ; ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate thei ...
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Biography
He was the son of Claes Aelbertsz Vooght and the brother of Maritge Claesdr Voogt (1577–1644) who married the brewerPieter Jacobsz Olycan
Pieter Jacobsz Olycan (1572 – 1658), was a Dutch brewer, magistrate, and later mayor of Haarlem, best known today for his portraits by Frans Hals, as well as for the portraits of his wife Maritge Claesdr. Voogt.
Biography
He was a merchant ...
, and Cornelia who married the brewer Nicolaes Woutersz van der Meer
Nicolaes Woutersz van der Meer (1575 – 1666) was a Dutch brewer, magistrate and mayor of Haarlem, best known today for his portrait with its pendant of his wife Cornelia Claesdr Voogt, both painted by Frans Hals in 1631.
Biography
He was bo ...
. He was himself the brewer at the family Vooght brewery.
Frans Hals painted him at the head of the table in his '' The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627''. His descendant, the art historian Roeland van Eynden Roeland van Eynden () was a Dutch painter. He was born at Nymegen in 1747, and died at Dordrecht in 1819. Like his brother he devoted but a portion of his time to painting, and is principally known by his works on art and artists, of which the most ...
, made a copy of this portrait in 1786 with a memorial plaque in the background that stated that he was mayor and colonel of the Haarlem schutterij
The Haarlem schutterij refers to a collective name for the voluntary Schutterij, civic guard of Haarlem, from medieval times up to the Batavian Revolution in 1794, when the guilds of Haarlem were disbanded.
History
During the Hook and Cod wars ...
, died in 1630, and the portrait was copied from the famous schutterstuk by Frans Hals in the Doelen, Haarlem.
References
* De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 47–76, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961,Portrait of Willem Claesz Vooght
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Roeland van Eynden Roeland van Eynden () was a Dutch painter. He was born at Nymegen in 1747, and died at Dordrecht in 1819. Like his brother he devoted but a portion of his time to painting, and is principally known by his works on art and artists, of which the most ...
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1572 births
1630 deaths
Mayors of places in the Dutch Republic
Mayors of Haarlem
Frans Hals