The Leeuwarden Series: Foreigners in the Service of the States-General William Brog was a member of a noble Scottish family.43 His service in the United Provinces, first recorded in 1588, covered a period of almost 50 years. In various ranks, he commanded Scottish and sometimes Dutch troops in most of the significant battles that took place during his career. He was wounded on numerous occasions. During the Siege of Ostend (1601), his nose was squashed and his cheek gashed open, the scar of which is visible in this portrait. He was made colonel of the so-called Old Scottish Regiment by resolution of the States-General in 1606, and died, not in battle, but of old age in The Hague in 1636. Judging by the sitter’s costume the lost prototype of this portrait probably dated from between 1605 and 1615. Jonathan Bikker, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 384.