The St Adrian Civic Guard is a 1612 militia group portrait painting by the Dutch artist Cornelis Engelsz.

[1][2]The painting was bought from Charles Sedelmeyer in 1895 by the director of the Strasbourg museum, Wilhelm von Bode, and entered the collections two years later.

painting disappeared from sight until late 2008, when a partnership was launched between the museum and BNP Paribas in order to restore it for good.

[4][1][3] The style of the painting is inspired by Cornelis van Haarlem and does seem archaic next to Frans Hals's The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616, which revolutionized the genre by its liveliness and dynamism.

next schuttersstuk, The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1618 (in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum),[5] would then look nothing like the Strasbourg painting.