Sara Wolphaerts van Diemen [SEP] collection
Portrait of Sara Wolphaerts van Diemen
Portrait of Sara Wolphaerts van Diemen is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted around 1630-1633 and now in the Rijksmuseum. It is considered a pendant to the portrait of Sara's husband Nicolaes Hasselaer.
Life.
Sara Wolphaerts van Diemen was baptized in Amsterdam on 6 April 1593 as the daughter of Gerrit Wolphaerts van Diemen and Anna Fabry. Her parents had 9 children and Sara had several brothers and sisters who married into the Amsterdam regency, such as
of 4000 guilders and 2000 guilders. That is worth about 420,000 euros in 2010. He married Geertruid van Erp on 29 December 1619 and their son Gerrit was baptized in the Nieuwe Kerk on 13 October 1620. Geertruid van Erp apparently didn't survive and Claes married a second time to Sara Wolphaerts van Diemen on 14 August 1622. They in turn had a daughter Geertruyd Hasselaer who was baptized in the Oude Kerk on 18 April 1624, followed by Anna on 5 April 1626, and Aefje on 17 May 1629.
Hals