Catharina Brugmans [SEP] collection
Catharina Brugmans
Portrait of Catharina Brugmans is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1634 and now in a private collection. It is considered a pendant to the portrait of Catharina's husband Tieleman Roosterman.
Life.
Catharina Brugmans was baptized in Amsterdam on 15 October 1609 as the daughter of the cloth merchant Jan Pietersz Brugman and Maria Adriaens. She was engaged to Tieleman on 27 November 1631, the same year that a property investment in the Beemster was made over from Jan's name to
Tieleman Roosterman
Tieleman Roosterman (1598 – 1673), was a Dutch cloth merchant and friend of Willem van Heythuysen who is best remembered today for his portrait painted by Frans Hals.
Biography.
According to Pieter Biesboer he is possibly also the subject of the painting known as "The Laughing Cavalier". The portrait he is most known for was dated in 1634, and probably commissioned on the occasion of his wedding to Catharina Brugmans in 1631. The Roostermans were rich textile merchants who lived in a large house on