{"id":309,"date":"2014-04-22T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com.gridhosted.co.uk\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-06-18T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:06:32","slug":"banquet-of-the-amsterdam-civic-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/banquet-of-the-amsterdam-civic-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Van der Helst was a contemporary of\u00a0Rembrandt. He soon became the most popular painter of portraits in Amsterdam, his flattering portrayals in the style of Anthony van Dyck\u00a0being more immediately appealing than Rembrandt&#8217;s dark and introspective later work.<br \/>\nHis large group portrait,\u00a0<i>Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the\u00a0Peace of M\u00fcnster\u00a0<\/i>(which is its full title ), was painted in 1648, and exhibited to popular acclaim. It was this painting that sealed his fame for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0Joshua Reynolds\u00a0visited Amsterdam in 1781, he praised the painting as &#8220;perhaps, the first picture of portraits in the world, comprehending more of those qualities which make a perfect portrait than any other I have ever seen&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van der Helst was a contemporary of\u00a0Rembrandt. He soon became the most popular painter of portraits in Amsterdam, his flattering portrayals in the style of Anthony van Dyck\u00a0being more immediately appealing than Rembrandt&#8217;s dark and introspective later work. His large group portrait,\u00a0Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the\u00a0Peace of M\u00fcnster\u00a0(which is its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/banquet-of-the-amsterdam-civic-guard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}