Hendrik Gerritsz. Pot Officers and sergeants of the St Hadrian Civic Guard on their retirement in 1630
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Hendrik Gerritsz. Pot
(c. 1580 - 15 October 1657 (buried)) was a Dutch painter. He lived and painted in Haarlem, where he was an officer of the militia, or schutterij. Dutch artist Frans Hals painted Pot in militia sash in Hals' The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company (c. 1639). Pot is the man reading a book on the far right.
Pot was born in Amsterdam and spent his early years in Amsterdam and Haarlem. In 1632 he traveled to London, where he painted the Royal Family. He lived from 1633 to 1648 in Haarlem, after which he moved to Amsterdam, where he died in 1657.. He served as Dean of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1626, 1630 and 1635. He served as the Guild's headman or Hoofdman in 1634 and 1648. He died in Amsterdam. Related Paintings of Hendrik Gerritsz. Pot :. | Das Meer | Democrite | Pieter Cnoll and his Family | Winter Landscape with a Lamp-post and and a Distant view of Haarlem | Princess of Orange | Related Artists: Master of the Saint Lucy Legend Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, 15th Century Hippolyte Lazerges 1817-1887 Alexander Ignatius Roche painted Italian Peasant Girl in 1861-1921