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Corporations of the Dutch Republic commemorated their histories with representations of significant past events. In 1654, the water management board of Leiden, for example, commissioned Caesar van Everdingen to paint the granting of its charter by the Count of Holland in 1255. By clothing the Count in seventeenth-century royal dress and setting the event in a classicizing space that evoked the latest style in public architecture, van Everdingen underscored the theme's relevance to water control in his own day.
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