Frans Hals - Portrait of Jacob Olycan - Mauritshuis 459

Jacob Pietersz Olycan (1596 – 1638), was a 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 ...

, best known today for his 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 ...

, pendant to the portrait of

Aletta Hannemans Aletta Hanemans (1606–1653), was a Dutch brewer. She became the brewer of the ''Hoeffijser'' in Haarlem. She is best known today for her marriage portrait by Frans Hals, painted when she married the brewer, magistrate, and later mayor of Haa ...

, whom he married in

Zwolle Zwolle () is a city and municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Overijssel and the province's second-largest municipality after Enschede with a population of 130,592 as of 1 December 2021. Zwolle is o ...

in 1624.

Biography

He was the son of

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 ...

and Maria Claesdr Voogt. He worked in his father's brewery in Haarlem, but married Aletta in Zwolle. They were back in Haarlem in 1625, when Hals painted their pendant portraits. The breweries owned by the Olycans were the '' Vogelstruys'' and the ''Hoeffijser''. Olycan featured in a Hals painting again as the central figure seated in the portrait of ''

The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627 ''The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627'' refers to a 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 Frans ...

''. He is shown in the position of Lieutenant that he served 1624–1627. In 1639 his parents also commissioned 2 sets of pendant portraits to be painted by Frans Hals. After Jacob died young a few years later, his widow Aletta married

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 ...

in 1641.De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 47-76, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, ISSN 0927-0728 File:Frans Hals 013.jpg, Olycan as the seated central figure in ''Officers of the St. George Civic Guard'', Haarlem, 1627 File:Frans Hals - Portrait of Aletta Hanemans - Mauritshuis 460.jpg, Aletta Hannemans in 1625 (wedding portrait)

References

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