Frederik Coning - detail of The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627 by Frans Hals

Frederik Coning (7 December 1594 – 7 June 1636), was a

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member of the Haarlem schutterij.

Biography

He was born in Haarlem as the son of Hendrick Hendricksz and Neeltje Soeteman, and the brother of

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and

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. He married Jacquemijne de Wolff of Bruges, the widow of his brother-in-law Anthoni Regoot.Frederik Coning
in record for this painting in the RKD He became a lieutenant of the St. George militia in Haarlem from 1624-1627 and captain from 1630-1633. He was portrayed by

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

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The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627 ''The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627'' refers to a schutterstuk painted by Frans Hals for the St. George (or St. Joris) civic guard of Haarlem, and today is considered one of the main attractions of the Frans ...

''. On 7 March 1635 he was buried in Haarlem.

References

Frederik Coning
in ''De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken'', by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 50–51, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives 1594 births 1636 deaths Frans Hals People from Haarlem {{Netherlands-bio-stub