HALS, Frans
(b. 1580, Antwerpen, d. 1666, Haarlem)

Anna van der Aar

1626
Oil on panel, 22 x 17 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The small portrait and its pendant, Petrus Scriverius, are each monogrammed and dated 1626. The sitters were a couple who lived in Leiden. Pieter Schrijver (1576-1660) is better known by his Latinized name, Petrus Scriverius. He married Anna van der Aar (1576-1656), daughter of a city councilman in Leiden.