castle). He directed plays by Vondel. Jan Vos had a good eye for the public taste, and was repeatedly entrusted by the city authorities with designing and overseeing pageants and spectacles. In 1654, Vos organized ten performances celebrating the Treaty of Westminster. In 1659, Amalia van Solms, the Regent's wife, and her daughter visited Amsterdam, seeing twenty performances especially designed for the occasions. Nicolas Tulp, however, vehemently opposed the appearance of pagan gods and goddesses during the visitors' festive arrival. At the visit of Maria Henrietta Stuart, the widow of William II, it turned out that one of the floats represented the beheading of Charles I of England, Mary's late father. Jan Vos, who led the processions on horseback, became a target for criticism. Notes References Dudok van Heel, S.A.C. (1980), "Jan Vos (1610 - 1667)." In: Jaarboek Amstelodamum, p. 23-43. Schwartz, G. (1987), Rembrandt, zijn leven, zijn schilderijen. Een nieuwe biografie met alle beschikbare schilderijen in kleur afgebeeld, p. 257-283. External links Schouwburg of Jan Vos Wraak en weerwraak Op het praalbeeldt van den HARTOG VAN ALBA Portrait by Karel Dujardin, at University of Michigan Museum of Art 1612 births 1667 deaths 17th-century Dutch dramatists and playwrights 17th-century Dutch poets Dutch male poets Muiderkring Writers from Amsterdam Dutch male dramatists and playwrights Occasional poets