Portrait of Three Boys

Image credit: Victoria Art Gallery

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The boys’ arrangement, in the order of youngest to eldest, suggests that the painting is on a theme of growing maturity, from carefree innocence to studious adolescence – as might the children’s attributes of a rattle, a small bird, and a book respectively.

Victoria Art Gallery

Bath

Title

Portrait of Three Boys

Date

c.1637–1645

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 83.8 x W 106.7 cm

Accession number

BATVG : P : 1900.12

Acquisition method

bequeathed, 1900

Work type

Painting

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