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Hendrick van der Burgh (active mid-seventeenth century)
An academic ceremony in Leiden. Signed JVB. Canvas, 71.5 × 59 cm.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv.nr.A 2720. Purchased in 1915 from J.H. Langeveldt, Voorhout.

This may be the only surviving seventeenth-century painting of an academic ceremony in the Netherlands. The building which the procession is leaving is still the site of academic ceremonies at Leiden University.