Family portraiture painting created during the seventeenth century, especially in the Low Countries, is famed for the spontaneity of its figures—who interlock with their bodies, and often, with their gazes. These oil paintings are sketches for larger family portraits produced by an unknown painter during the early-seventeenth century—possibly near Antwerp. They were purchased from an estate sale near Ghent during the summer of 2022, and are being studied for dating, stylistic, and provenance-related questions concerning their own history. The owner of the lot expects to keep them in his private collection, and wished to make them available, for new art connoisseurs.

The 18 works are available in editions of five.

This is sketch number 6–65x65 cm., oil on canvas.