Attributed to Jacob Ochtervelt Rotterdam 1634 - 1682 Amsterdam

Dr Susan Donahue Kuretsky has tentatively confirmed the attribution to Ochtervelt on the basis of digital photographs. She believes this to be a late work by the artist and dates it to the 1670s. The lady in the foreground is reminiscent of figures in other works Ochtervelt produced in this period, as are the colouring and overall composition.  A good example of this is Ochtervelt's Family portrait, of circa 1671, in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, in which a similar composition can be seen with a seated figure in the foreground and a standing figure in the centre (see S. Donahue Kuretsky, The paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt (1634-1682), Oxford 1979, p. 81, cat. no. 66, reproduced fig. 157).