It is considered a pendant to the portrait of Hylck's husband Johannes Saeckma.

[2]In 1974 Seymour Slive listed these as pendants and remarked on the difficulties of the provenance and said that the identification of these sitters is still uncertain.

[3] Unlike Hals' other wedding portraits of women, Hylck is wearing a sober Mennonite dress with very short wrist collars.

Her millstone collar is noticeable for its extra tightly folded figure-eight loops.

She wears her hair covered by a winged diadem cap that is edged with lace trim.

Her ensemble is very similar to that of young Mennonite brides of Haarlem that Hals portrayed: