Confrerie Pictura

The Boterwaag on the Prinsegracht in Den Haag. The leftmost side was the original building from 1650 with the swan above the door. The painters moved in when the butter weighing moved to the larger right side extension.
Koorenhuis on Prinsegracht 27, built in 1662–1663, now an arts center, only the facade and hall remain of the original building.
Prinsegracht in The Hague, ± 1850, by Jan Weissenbruch

The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague (the Netherlands) by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there.


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