Stored in the London National Gallery Lady with a fan – a typical custom portrait: there are no fortune tellers and drinkers, which the artist so loved to portray. From

Before us is a grain trader in Haarlem, a wealthy upstart who traveled half the Europe on his own business, who acquired a splendid house in imitation of noble aristocrats.

“Group portrait”, or rather “Group portrait of officers of the shooting company of St. George,” refers to the early period of his work. In those days, Dutch citizens, in order