Night Watch
Rembrandt’s Night Watch is the most famous painting of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It is an appropriate place for this work of art, as the people that Rembrandt painted were all Amsterdam citizen.
We have always known who the militiamen are. There is a shield with a list of eighteen names on the canvas. That shield was added later, around 1715, upon the request of the company itself.
There was just one problem; with the exception of the key figures, we did not know who was who. That problem has now been solved. We can associate the names with the figures on the canvas.