Gerrit Lundens

[2] His aunt Anneke (or Annken) Lunden (born in Antwerp in 1571) married in 1620 Christoffel van Sichem the Younger, who was presumably her brother-in-law.

[4] He may have trained with the painter Abraham van den Hecken the Younger, his brother-in-law who had married his sister Catharina when he was 13 years old.

He was influenced by his brother-in-law Abraham van den Hecken and Jan Miense Molenaer, a pupil of Frans Hals.

[1] His genre scenes often represent peasants and persons from the lower as well as middle classes enjoying a good time at taverns.

It is believed that Captain Cocq commissioned Lunden to make the smaller replica, which is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London.

[14] Lundens' copy painted only a few years after the original, shows Rembrandt's work before 1715 when it was cut down on three sides and lost a few figures.

[15][16] One significant difference with the original work is the more elevated position of the pikeman Walich Schellingwou, which was possibly to compensate for the omission of the cartouche with the names of the persons depicted.