Portrait of Anna van der Aar [SEP] creator
Portrait of Anna van der Aar
Portrait of Anna van der Aar is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is considered a pendant portrait to that of her husband, the writer Petrus Scriverius.
Painting.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:
"225. ANNA VAN DER AAR (born in 1576), wife of Petrus Scriverius. B. 66 ; M. 73. Half-length
Petrus Scriverius
Petrus Scriverius, the Latinized form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver (12 January 1576 – 30 April 1660), was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium.
He was born at Haarlem, and educated by Cornelis Schoneus at the University of Leiden, where he formed a close intimacy with Daniel Heinsius. In 1599 he married Anna van der Aar, and from 1611 to 1613 he was headmaster of the Latin School in Duisburg, today's Landfermann-Gymnasium. He belonged to the