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Aletta Hanemans (1606–1653), was a Dutch brewer. She became the brewer of the ''Hoeffijser'' in
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
. She is best known today for her marriage portrait by
Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem.
Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...
, painted when she married the brewer, magistrate, and later mayor of
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
,
Jacob Pietersz Olycan
Jacob Pietersz Olycan (1596 – 1638), was a brewer, magistrate, and later mayor of Haarlem, best known today for his portrait by Frans Hals, pendant to the portrait of Aletta Hannemans, whom he married in Zwolle in 1624.
Biography
He was the ...
in 1624.
Biography
Little is known of her early life, but her father was probably a professional acquaintance of her husband's father
Pieter Jacobsz Olycan
Pieter Jacobsz Olycan (1572 – 1658), was a Dutch brewer, magistrate, and later mayor of Haarlem, best known today for his portraits by Frans Hals, as well as for the portraits of his wife Maritge Claesdr. Voogt.
Biography
He was a mercha ...
, who had grown up in his father's oil and grain shop in Amsterdam. Though she married Jacob in Zwolle, the young couple was back in Haarlem in 1625, when Hals painted their pendant portraits. Their brewery called the ''Hoeffijser'' or ''Hoef-yzer'' was located on the Donkere Spaarne (near the
Teylers Hofje
The Teylershofje is a hofje in Haarlem, Netherlands with 24 houses.
History of the foundation
The current hofje was built in 1787 from the legacy of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, just like the Teylers Museum close to it. Pieter Teyler van der H ...
today).
[ Lof der stad Haarlem by ]Samuel Ampzing
Samuel Ampzing (24 June 1590 – 29 July 1632) was a Dutch minister, poet and purist.
Biography
Born to the minister Johannes Ampzing in Haarlem, in 1616 Samuel became a minister himself at Rijsoord in Strevelshoek, and in 1619 at the Sint-B ...
It had been given to Jacob by his parents, after he had spent his youth in training there. After Jacob died in 1638, Aletta remarried another Haarlem brewer,
Nicolaes van Loo
Nicolaes van Loo (1607 – 1641), was a Dutch Golden Age brewer from Haarlem, best known today for his portrait by Frans Hals.
Biography
He was born in Haarlem as the oldest son of the brewer Johan Claesz Loo and Margriet Akersloot. Their fa ...
(1607-1641), but he died soon after. She then continued the business on her own, probably assisted by her parents-in-law and later assisted by her daughter Johanna Olijcan, who eventually married the brewer Mattheus Claesz Everszwijn and continued the brewery.
Both of Aletta's husbands were painted by Frans Hals:
File:Frans Hals - Portrait of Jacob Olycan - Mauritshuis 459.jpg, Her first husband Jacob Pietersz Olycan
File:Frans Hals - Nicolaas van Loo - detail of schutterstuk 1639.jpg, Her second husband Nicolaas van Loo in 1639 (it looks like he is about to stab Francois Woutersz below him)
File:Portrait of Maritge Claesdr. Voogt (1577-1644) by Frans Hals 027.jpg, Portrait of her mother-in-law Maritge Voogt Claesdr, former owner of the ''Hoeffijser''
Hals portrait (1625; restored 2007)
Aletta is wearing a costly bridal
stomacher
A stomacher is a decorated triangular panel that fills in the front opening of a woman's gown or bodice. The stomacher may be boned, as part of a corset, or may cover the triangular front of a corset. If simply decorative, the stomacher lies ov ...
called a "bruidsborst", worked with gold thread and showing various flowers symbolizing marriage. 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''. The vlieger was a full-length sleeveless robe open in front and with two holes at the side for a belt chain. Her vlieger is edged with black velvet and shows off her stomacher and skirt. Her sleeves are attached via shoulder wings to her dress with small silver aglets. Around her neck she is wearing a starched linen figure-eight collar, and over her hair she is wearing a diadem cap with lace edging. She is holding a pair of embroidered bridal gloves and wears a wedding ring on her right forefinger. She is also wearing gold bracelets and lace wrist collars and her ensemble shows her to be one of Hals' most wealthy sitters.
See also
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Jacob Pietersz Olycan
Jacob Pietersz Olycan (1596 – 1638), was a brewer, magistrate, and later mayor of Haarlem, best known today for his portrait by Frans Hals, pendant to the portrait of Aletta Hannemans, whom he married in Zwolle in 1624.
Biography
He was the ...
, her first husband
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, featuring her first husband seated in the middle
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The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639
''The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639'' refers to the last and largest schutterstuk painted by Frans Hals for the St. George (or St. Joris) civic guard of Haarlem, and today is considered one of the main attractions of the F ...
, showing her second husband with his
spontoon
A spontoon, sometimes known by the variant spelling espontoon or as a half-pike, is a type of European polearm that came into being alongside the pike. The spontoon was in common use from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century, but it was ...
pointed downwards
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Pieter Jacobsz Olycan
Pieter Jacobsz Olycan (1572 – 1658), was a Dutch brewer, magistrate, and later mayor of Haarlem, best known today for his portraits by Frans Hals, as well as for the portraits of his wife Maritge Claesdr. Voogt.
Biography
He was a mercha ...
, her father-in-law
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Andries van Hoorn
Andries van Hoorn, or van der Horn (1600 – after 1660), was a Dutch mayor of Haarlem, known best today for his portraits by Frans Hals.
Biography
He was born in Haarlem as the son of the Haarlem magistrate Dammas van Hoorn and Christina (St ...
, her brother-in-law
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List of paintings by Frans Hals
The following is an incomplete list of paintings by Frans Hals that are generally accepted as autograph by the Frans Hals Museum and other sources. The list is more or less in order of creation, starting from around 1610 when Frans Hals began pai ...
References
*Bianca M. Du Mortier, ''Costume in Frans Hals'', article in ''Frans Hals'' exhibition catalog, by Seymour Slive (editor), with contributions by Pieter Biesboer, Martin Bijl, Karin Groen and Ella Hendriks, Michael Hoyle, Frances S. Jowell, Koos Levy-van Halm and Liesbeth Abraham, Bianca M. Du Mortier, Irene van Thiel-Stroman, Prestel-Verlag, Munich & Mercatorfonds, Antwerp, 1989,
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1606 births
1653 deaths
Frans Hals
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