For a really interesting background to the painting, see [1]. The painting originally had no name. A 1715 copy gave it the name "Officers and other civic guard

For a really interesting background to the painting, see [1]. The painting originally had no name. A 1715 copy gave it the name "Officers and other civic guardsmen of District II of Amsterdam, under the command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch". A 1797 engraving added the nickname "Night Watch". So today, the painting's preferred full name is [2] in Dutch: * "Officieren en andere schutters van wijk II in Amsterdam onder leiding van kapitein Frans Banninck Cocq en luitenant Willem van Ruytenburch, bekend als de ‘Nachtwacht’" and in English: * "Officers and other civic guardsmen of District II of Amsterdam, under the command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the ‘Night Watch’" [1] https://jhna.org/articles/amsterdam-civic-guard-portraits-within-outside-new-rijksmuseum-part-ii/ https://jhna.org/articles/amsterdam-civic-guard-portraits-wi... [2] http://www.getty.edu/cona/CONAFullSubject.aspx?subid=700001886 http://www.getty.edu/cona/CONAFullSubject.aspx?subid=7000018...