Isabella Coymans

Isabella Coymans (1626 – 1689), was the Dutch wife of Stephanus Geraerdts best known for her portrait painted by Frans Hals.

She was the wealthy daughter of the Haarlem cloth merchant Joseph Coymans and Dorothea Berck.

Most of Hals's female sitters were buttoned up to the chin or wearing a box collar, and had their hair behind a Dutch ladies' diadem or cap.

[4] The art historian Cornelis Hofstede de Groot mixed Isabella's portrait provenance with a weak copy that was shown at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909.

[3] In 1962 the Frans Hals Museum had a large-scale exhibition of Hals paintings and Stephan was included, but the museum was so disappointed that Isabella couldn't come that they gave her a catalog number anyway and included a photograph as illustration for Stephan's portrait.