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While the attribution to the present painting remains unresolved, its connections to the portaiture of Friesland and in particular, the work of Adriaen van der Linde, should not be discounted. Little is known of the artist, although he is recorded as being in Leeuwarden as early as 1595. His style has more in common with other portrait painters from Flanders and that being practised in Utrecht and The Hague, rather than the more provincial Friesland tradition of stiff wooden likenesses. Dr. A. Wassenbergh attributes a number of paintings to the latter, including a Portrait of a Young Girl, dated 1610, in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, whose pose and handling can be compared to the present picture (see A. Wassenbergh, De Portretkunst in Freisland in de Zeventiende eeuw, Lochen, 1967, p. 20, no. 25).
The image of a child holding a kolf club and wearing formal dress is not uncommon and the black robe, yellow petticoat and pink doublet correspond closely to what during was the popular fashion for young boys of that age during the first decade of the seventeenth century. Similar paintings include Paulus Moreelse's Portrait of a four-year old boy with a club and ball in the Michaelis collection, Cape Town (see fig.1); Wybrand Symonsz. de Geest's Portrait of a boy with kolf club, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and Bartolomeus van der Helst's Portrait of a young boy in a landscape, in the Edward James Foundation, Chichester.
Although the age of the sitter in the present painting would make it improbable that the young boy was already playing kolf, the child-size club in this and other portraits, as well as a depiction of a young child playing on the ice in Adrian van de Venne's gouache Man and Boy playing Kolf ( British Museum, London) suggest that it was a game that could be taken up at a comparatively early age. In the modern day variant of the game, a three-year old Tiger Woods is recorded going around a nine hole course in under fifty strokes.
The image of a child holding a kolf club and wearing formal dress is not uncommon and the black robe, yellow petticoat and pink doublet correspond closely to what during was the popular fashion for young boys of that age during the first decade of the seventeenth century. Similar paintings include Paulus Moreelse's Portrait of a four-year old boy with a club and ball in the Michaelis collection, Cape Town (see fig.1); Wybrand Symonsz. de Geest's Portrait of a boy with kolf club, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and Bartolomeus van der Helst's Portrait of a young boy in a landscape, in the Edward James Foundation, Chichester.
Although the age of the sitter in the present painting would make it improbable that the young boy was already playing kolf, the child-size club in this and other portraits, as well as a depiction of a young child playing on the ice in Adrian van de Venne's gouache Man and Boy playing Kolf ( British Museum, London) suggest that it was a game that could be taken up at a comparatively early age. In the modern day variant of the game, a three-year old Tiger Woods is recorded going around a nine hole course in under fifty strokes.