# Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael

- By: Pieter Codde (Amsterdam, ca. –1678)
- By: Frans Hals (Antwerp, ca. –1666)
- Date: 1637
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: frame: height 233 cm x width 452 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-374--39d1a561a0e487fe7f299dbaf6314d22)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/ZfDYa/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

So much went wrong with this Amsterdam militia company portrait. Hals made several trips to the capital to portray the guardsmen, but some never showed up. Finally, he insisted they come to Haarlem, but they refused, instead engaging the Amsterdam painter Pieter Codde to complete the work. Hals’ progress then remains unclear, but the composition and the seven figures on the left seem to be largely by him.