Petrus Scriverius (1576?1660), 1626, Oil on wood, 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (22. 2 x 16. 5 cm), Paintings, Frans Hals (Dutch, Antwerp 1582/83?1666 Haarlem), Scriverius was a distinguished historian, poet, and scholar of classical literature. His wife, Anna van der Aar, was the daughter of a Leiden city councilman. In this pair of portraits Hals employs the scale, oval format, and illusionistic framing device that for several decades had been common in Dutch portrait prints