Portrait of Oopjen Coppit, Wife of Marten Soolmans

Catalogue number: Bredius 342.

The life-size, full-length portraits of Marten Soolmans (1613-1641) and his wife, Oopjen Coppit (1611-1689), are exceptionally large and elaborate for Rembrandt. They cost about five hundred guilders, an amount as much as a skilled worker or a minister in the Reformed church earned in a year. The sitters not only ordered two paintings of this format, they also bought other work by Rembrandt.