Some think that we see Mynheer and Myvrouw Hals in the picture--No.

1084 in the Ryks Museum--which is reproduced on the opposite page.

If this jovial and roguish pair are really the painter and his wife, they were a merry couple.

Children they had in abundance; seven sons, five of whom were painters, and three daughters.

Abundance indeed was Hals' special characteristic; you see it in all his work--vigorous, careless abundance and power.