A Younger Brother of Anna Maria Siedonia Mockels

style of Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (Dordrecht 1594 – Dordrecht 1651). Oil painting on panel (oak), A Younger Brother of Anna Maria Siedonia Mockels, in the style of Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (Dordrecht 1594 – Dordrecht 1651). A full-length portrait of a little boy aged about three, before being breeched, standing to left in an architectural interior with a black and white paved floor, wearing a scarlet frock trimmed with silver braid, white lace collar and cuffs, white apron, scarlet cap with feathers and a double chain of coral beads; he holds a goldfinch on the index finger of the right hand, and a dog is seated beside him. Two coats of arms top left, the left hand one being those of the family of Mockels of Westphalia: per fess or and argent, divided by a fesslet sable, the first charged with an M sable, the second with an acorn with two leaves, vert. Crest: a slipped acorn vert, between wings countercharged or and sable. R.h. coat of arms: or, charged with a label of four points, gules above, and with a zig-zag sable below. Crest: a jester(?) couped, holding a spear, dressed per pale or and sable, his cap of the same, countercharged. Upton House, Warwickshire (Accredited Museum)