KEYSER, Thomas de
(b. 1596/97, Amsterdam, d. 1667, Amsterdam)

A Musician and His Daughter

1629
Oil on wood, 75 x 53 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

In this picture, two richly dressed figures, an amateur musician and his daughter of about ten years old, are set in a contemporary interior. It belongs to several small-scale full-length portraits that De Keyser painted in Amsterdam at around 1630. Other artists of the day painted similar portraits, a trend partly indebted to English court portraiture.