Nachtwacht- Painting Of Man Enjoying Rembrandt's Night Watch

Nachtwacht
painting of a man enjoying Rembrandt's Night Watch

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
±35 1/2" x 35 1/2" or 90 x 90 cm
2025

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The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings by Rembrandt and formally known as Militia Company of District II Under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. The painting’s simpler, widely known title was erroneously given to it due to its thick, dark yellow varnish, the painting does not depict a nocturnal scene.

Commissioned in 1640 and painted in 1642, at the height of Rembrandt’s career, this colossal painting is a commissioned group portrait of a militia company, the civic guard, charged with preventing attacks on Amsterdam.

Such portraits traditionally depicted their members in neat rows or at a banquet. Rembrandt’s version, however, makes the prosaic subject into a dynamic work of art; with its masterful chiaroscuro and dramatic action, the conventions of traditional portraiture are overturned.

All the best, Gerard

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Staalmeesters- 3 Women Enjoying Painting By Rembrandt

Staalmeesters
3 women enjoying a painting by Rembrandt

G. Boersma
acrylic on masonite
35 1/2" x 27 2/3" or 90x 70 cm
2023

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Jewish Bride- Man Enjoying Painting By Rembrandt

Jewish Bride
man enjoying Jewish Bride by Rembrandt

G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
6" x 6" or 15 x 15 cm
2012
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Finally I painted another museum scene! The figure on my painting enjoys Jewish Bride by Rembrandt. Hope you enjoy it too!

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Abduction - man looking at Rembrandt Getty Museum

I have had this painting lying around for quite some time now, I don't know why I haven't posted it before. On the painting you see a man looking at The Abduction of Europa painted by Rembrandt.

A lot of action is going on Rembrandts painting. You see the god Jupiter, who disguised himself as a white bull in order to seduce the princess Europa away from her companions and carry her across the sea to the distant land that would bear her name. My figure just stands there admiring the scene in front of him. I thought this contrast is quite interesting.

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Abduction
G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
6" x 6" or 15 x 15 cm
2009

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Hats- man looking at Rembrandt Getty Center

As I told you tuesday the attendant was guarding some paintings by Rembrandt. On todays painting you see a guy looking at those paintings. On Rembrandts painting the man portraited wears a funny looking hat, I'm not sure what kind of hat is really. My figure also wears a hat, well a baseball cap to be exact. Makes me wonder how a common thing like a baseball cap will look outdated a couple of 100 years from now.

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Hats
G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
8" x 8" or 20 x 20 cm
2009
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Attendant

It doesn't matter which great museum you visit, they're bound to have a couple of old Dutch master paintings hanging there. Being a Dutchman and painter myself that always makes me proud. The Getty Center in Los Angeles is no exception to the rule. It has loads of Dutch master paintings. On my painting you see a lovely landscape by Hobbema on the left and in the background a painting by Rembrandt, all guarded by an attendant of the museum. I tried a different colour scheme as I used to, which works quite well. Also worked for a change with many underlayers in different colours, especially at the walls. It gives them more structure and subtle colour changes.

kind regards, Gerard



Attendant
G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
9.9" x 8.7" or 25,2 x 22 cm
2009
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Bride - man looking at Jewish Bride by Rembrandt

I was working on a medium sized painting today and I just completed it when I felt like doing a really small one for a change. I haven't made any in a long time. On the painting you a see man looking at the Jewish Bride by Rembrandt, as seen in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It was quite difficult to get the heads of the figures straight, my panel being so small and all, but I think I pulled it off.

Tomorrow is a big day by the way. I don't really have to do anything, but my paintings will be shipped to Los Angeles for the LA Art Show. Very exciting! I said earlier that 12 paintings are included in the art fair, but we finally settled on 15 larger scaled paintings and 10 smaller ones. Quite a lot!

kind regards, Gerard Boersma



Bride
G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
3.7" x 2.6" or 9,3 x 6,5 cm
2009
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The Best Men

The painting the two young men are looking at is the worldfamous The Jewish Bride by Rembrandt. The figures on Rembrandts painting probably aren't Jewish at all, most likely they're posing as the biblical figures Isaac and Rebecca. An artdealer in the 19th century though saw in this painting a Jewish father giving his daughter a necklace for her marriage. Since then it was known as The Jewish Bride. It doesn't really matter, my figures are still best men!

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The Best Men
G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
6" x 6", 15 x 15 cm
2008

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The Generations

Last friday I went to Amsterdam to take some pictures for my paintings. The Generations is the first of a new series of paintings about people in museums. On the painting you see an young woman holding her child. She's looking at some famous paintings by Rembrandt. The scene is taken from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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The Generations
G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
9.5" x 12.6", 32 x 24 cm
2008

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