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The Rhetoricians, c.1655 (oil on panel)

The Rhetoricians, c.1655 (oil on panel)
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Netherlands
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reading
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guild
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Netherlands
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reading
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coat-of-arms
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guild
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The Rhetoricians, c.1655 (oil on panel)

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Steen, Jan Havicksz. (1625/26-79) / Dutch

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Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA

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oil on panel

Date

c. 1655 AD (C17th AD)

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72.1x60 cms

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The men depicted here are probably members of the guild of Rhetoricians (Rederijkers), a group of poets and dramatists who banded together for fellowship, readings, and theatrical performances. These organizations, which could be found in the major towns of seventeenth-century Holland, were often the subject of paintings from the period. Here the prominent coat of arms hanging from the sill bears the emblem of the Amsterdam guild of Rhetoricians called "Egelantiers," a flowering eglantine, and their motto, "flourishing in love" (in liefde bloeinende). The man on the right wearing a beret has been identified as Steen, who frequently included himself in his paintings. As far as we know, he was never a member of the Egelantiers.

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Worcester Art Museum / Eliza S. Paine Fund in memory of William R. and Frances T. C. Paine / Bridgeman Images

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