This unusual church in Sint Annaparochie, in Friesland the Netherlands, caught my eye recently; as did the quaint sculpture out front. The woman, Saskia van Uylenburg, seems disproportionally smaller than the man.
So who is Saskia? She was born in 1612, the daughter of a Frisian major.
I can only uncover a little about her life - that she apparently married for love, to a painter who was socially no match for the daughter of a patrician. She had four children but three died shortly after birth. The fourth, Titus, survived but Saskia died the year after he was born. She was aged 29, probably dying from tuberculosis.
She was also the wife of Rembrandt van Rijn.
