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Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer Johannes Verspronck  
 

 
Rembrandt van Rijn, A Young Man Seated at a Table (possibly Govaert Flinck), c. 1660, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.77

Individual artists used these gestures more or less frequently. In Rembrandt’s subtle and contemplative portraits, for example, the gesture’s aggressiveness is muted. Verspronck and his Haarlem colleague Frans Hals, whose portraits are more brash and energetic, used the gesture frequently.



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