Willemina van Braeckel

[4][5] She is noted for her portrait of 1637, the tenth anniversary year or her wedding, painted by Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck and which is now in the Frans Halls Museum in Haarlem.

It was donated to the museum in 1883 as part of a legacy left to the town by one Fabricius van Leyenburg.

In the portrait she displays her status and wealth by wearing an oversize starched ruff, lace cuffs, pearl necklace and a jeweled wedding ring.

Her family coat of arms is shown pinned to the wall in the top left of the portrait where it would be next to her husbands when the pair are hung together.

She had 2 children: Samuel de Liedekercke (b 1638), who is shown in a later family portrait c1650 by the artist Gerard ter Borch, and one other child.