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| Artist | Dutch School |
| Title | Portrait of a Boy Aged Three with a Large Hat and a Parrot |
| Date | 1644 (dated) |
| Material | oil on panel |
| Measurements | 110.5 x 84.5 cm |
| Inscription | front ur ‘Ao 1644/Atatis suae 3’ |
| Description | Small full-length portrait of a standing child, seen from the right. He wears a green doublet and matching skirts, with lace cuffs and a large ruff; his long hair in a lace bonnet. Thee strings of coral hang from his right shoulder across his chest like a sash or baldrick; a small gold cross is suspended from one of them. In his left hand he holds up a parrot-like bird with green and red plumage; in his right hand, he holds by his side a broad-brimmed grey hat. A small white and brown dog lower left corner; black and white tiled floor; plain background. |
| Subject | portrait |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): The Burrell Collection |
| Current accession number | 35.254 |
| Acquisition details | Given by Sir William and Lady Burrell 1944. |
| Provenance | ‘Bought [by Sir William Burrell (1861-1958)] in Holland about 1890’. |
| Principal publications | Wright, C. (ed.), Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, Birmingham, 1989, p. 188, as Dutch School. |
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| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Robert Wenley |
