Portrait of Louise Philippine Royer (1739-1809), aged 27, seated small full length by a fountain, wearing a blue silk dress with lace chemise and red silk wrap, a canary is perched on the index finger of her left hand, a birdcage at her side, in a formal garden

The sitter was a daughter of Jean Royer and Sara Philippine Hoeufft (the sitter in the previous lot). She was portrayed 38 years later at the same age as her mother. It is obvious that Verheyden, by adopting the same style as in 1728, thus intended to create pendant portraits.

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