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Anthonie [Stevers] Palamedes, (b Delft, 1601; d Amsterdam, 1673) was a Dutch painter. His teacher is unknown, but he may have studied in Delft with the court painter Michiel van Mierevelt and/or Hendrik Pot, who was in the city in 1620. Palamedes joined the Delft Guild of St Luke in 1621. In 1673 Anthonie was residing in Amsterdam, probably with his eldest son, the painter Palamedes Palamedes II.  Anthonie was a genre, portrait and still-life painter but is best known for his paintings depicting musical or merry companies and soldiers. Such works attest to his knowledge of contemporary genre paintings by Haarlem and Amsterdam artists, such as Dirck Hals, Pieter Codde, Willem Duyster and Hendrik Pot. In the 1640s and 1650s Palamedesz. often painted guardroom scenes and soldiers with their camp followers in stables, adopting compositions recalling designs by Duyster and Jacob Duck but executed in a looser, less refined technique. Palamedes painted several different composition depicting a trumpeter with a clarion flag hung from his instrument. 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Such works attest to his knowledge of contemporary genre paintings by Haarlem and Amsterdam artists, such as Dirck Hals, Pieter Codde, Willem Duyster and Hendrik Pot. In the 1640s and 1650s Palamedesz. often painted guardroom scenes and soldiers with their camp followers in stables, adopting compositions recalling designs by Duyster and Jacob Duck but executed in a looser, less refined technique. Palamedes painted several different composition depicting a trumpeter with a clarion flag hung from his instrument. The trumpeter's task in the Dutch army was to alert all the soldiers in the guardroom (<i>cortegaard</i>) to march out of the military unit following a commander's orders.","historicalContext":"Genre paintings such as this often represented the lower classes of society, especially peasants, but as the decades progressed such pictures evolved to included more elevated classes and became especially popular in Holland in the the 17th century. These pictures often depict scenes of everyday life set in domestic interiors or in the countryside. Scholars continue to debate whether they bear a metaphorical meaning and hidden messages, or just feature a close depiction of contemporary events. In both case they are associated with health, pleasure and liberty.","briefDescription":"Oil painting, 'The Trumpeter', Anthonie Palamedesz., 1654","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kauffmann, C.M. <u>Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 211, cat. no. 265"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Waagen, <u>Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an account of more than forty collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Mss, etc</u>, London, 1857, p.180."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Masters of Seventeenth-century Dutch Genre Painting</u> (exh. cat. by P. C. 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