MUSEUM DE LAKENHAL, IN LEIDEN, ACQUIRES PORTRAIT BY THE LEIDEN FIJNSCHILDER ARY DE VOIS.

A young man is depicted wearing the full regalia of a guardsman in one of Leiden’s civic militia companies. The splendid, gold-embroidered ensign that rests across one shoulder reflects his position as standard-bearer, for which the requirement was to be of good birth and unmarried. ...