A Group Portrait, said to be the Bolingbroke family, in an ornamental garden

The present unrecorded work is a studio version of the painting by van Dyck in the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, which is believed to have been executed around 1634-8. Larsen records a copy as in the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (E. Larsen, Van Dyck, 1988, p. 308, under no. 775).

According to Gluck (G. Gluck, Van Dyck, 1931, p. 503), the sitters of the present work are the children of the 1st Earl of Bolingbroke, Oliver St. John. He identifies them as from left to right Barbara; Elizabeth; Dorothy (married John Cary, later Earl of Dover); Anthony; Francis; Sir Paulet St. John (d. 1638); and Oliver St. John, Baron St. John (died in the Civil War in 1642).