Aletta Hanemans

She is best known today for her marriage portrait by Frans Hals, painted when she married the brewer, magistrate, and later mayor of Haarlem, Jacob Pietersz Olycan in 1624.

Though she married Jacob in Zwolle, the young couple was back in Haarlem in 1625, when Hals painted their pendant portraits.

[1] Their brewery called the Hoeffijser or Hoef-yzer was located on the Donkere Spaarne (near the Teylers Hofje today).

She wears it over a colorful purple and red skirt that is draped over a French fardegalijn, a wheel shaped device meant to extend the skirt, causing the stomacher to protrude forward and which supported the heavy gold chain wrapped around her gown and through her vlieger.

She is also wearing gold bracelets and lace wrist collars and her ensemble shows her to be one of Hals' most wealthy sitters.