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| Keywords: The Trumpeter.jpg en A Dutch army trumpeter blows his horn while the men and women around him seemingly oblivious continue to go about their business dressing smoking and warming themselves by the fire Anthonie Stevers Palamedes b Delft 1601; d Amsterdam 1673 was a Dutch painter His teacher is unknown but he may have studied in Delft with the court painter Michiel van Mierevelt and/or Hendrik Pot who was in the city in 1620 Palamedes joined the Delft Guild of St Luke in 1621 In 1673 Anthonie was residing in Amsterdam probably with his eldest son the painter Palamedes Palamedes II Anthonie was a genre portrait and still-life painter but is best known for his paintings depicting musical or merry companies and soldiers Such works attest to his knowledge of contemporary genre paintings by Haarlem and Amsterdam artists such as Dirck Hals Pieter Codde Willem Duyster and Hendrik Pot In the 1640s and 1650s Palamedesz often painted guardroom scenes and soldiers with their camp followers in stables adopting compositions recalling designs by Duyster and Jacob Duck but executed in a looser less refined technique Palamedes painted several different composition depicting a trumpeter with a clarion flag hung from his instrument The trumpeter's task in the Dutch army was to alert all the soldiers in the guardroom cortegaard to march out of the military unit following a commander's orders 1654 painted http //collections vam ac uk/item/O133330/oil-painting-the-trumpeter/ Palamedesz Anthonie born 1601 - died 1673 painter artist PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Military bands 17th-century warfare Anthonie Palamedesz Camp follower | ||||
