Frans Hals - portrait of possibly Johan de Wael c

Johan de Wael (1594 – 1663), was a

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mayor of

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Biography

He was born in Haarlem and together with his brother

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he owned the Haarlem breweries ''De Son'' and t Roode Hart''. He served as judge in 1618, magistrate in 1620, and mayor in 1627 (after that he was mayor 19 times).

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 De Wael in a wedding pendant along with his wife Aeltje Pater of Amsterdam, whom he married in 1620. They had no issue. Her brother was a brewer and mayor of Amsterdam. De Wael was captured and taken to

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in 1650 for supporting the

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and was stripped of his appointments, but was completely reinstated a few months later after the death of William II, Prince of Orange.Johan de Wael
in Abraham Jacob van der Aa He died in Haarlem.

Pendants

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References

Johan de Wael
on ''Vroedschap van Amsterdam'' by

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1594 births 1663 deaths Frans Hals Mayors of Haarlem Businesspeople from Haarlem Dutch brewers {{Netherlands-mayor-stub