Focus on The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers and explore the Artist.
De Baen, a leading portraitist based in The Hague, had also painted individual portraits of both brothers, and The Apotheosis of Cornelis de Witt, with the Dutch Raid on the Medway in the background, which had been commissioned by the Dordrecht City Hall, because Cornelis de Witt first became mayor in 1650. In 1667 he had supervised the Raid on the Medway, which had been celebrated as a great victory and which had been planned by his brother Johan. The city hall painting in Dordrecht was destroyed at the same time as the mob in The Hague lynched the brothers, such was the state of the country in the rampjaar. The modello was purchased by Alexander Gogel in 1806, followed by copies of Jan de Baen's portraits of the brothers in 1808.
Alexander Gogel The Hague Raid on the Medway Cornelis de Witt Jan de Baen Johan