The Standard Bearer (Floris Soop)

Catalogue number: Bredius 275.

The sitter of this painting was the fifty-year-old Floris Soop (1604-1657), a wealthy bachelor and ensign, or standard-bearer, in a civic guard company of his native Amsterdam. He was a collector, at his death he owned about 140 paintings as well as many books, a lute, and three violas da gamba, and about a hundred pieces of fine glassware, coins, and other collectibles.