Portrait of child, aged 4, probably Sophia Everwijn, standing full length, wearing a red satin dress with embroidered bodice, lace collar, cuffs and pinafore and gold embroidered headdress, holding a rose in her right hand and an orange branch in her left

The identification of the sitter is based on the coat of arms, the date of execution of 1620 and the genealogy of the Everwijn family. Since Sophia's youngest sister Catharina was born in 1620, Sophia is the only likely candidate. The present lot is an addition to the series of five of 1615 recorded in the Brantsen collection, 1803, which is of the mother Naleken, née Craeyvanger (circa 1578-1637), the father Reynder (circa 1584-1634), the two brothers Everard and Reinier and sister Lucretia. Sophia married Arnout Tulleken in 1637.
We are grateful to Karen Schaffers-Bodenhausen of the Iconographisch Bureau, The Hague, for her help in cataloguing this lot.