Oil on wood: 50.6 x 37.5 cm. Such an intriguing portrait. Life has not been kind to her. Her teeth are gone. Working hard, but always in poverty. What went through her mind when she saw the finished portrait? Sweerts is said to have been an unpleasant character. He travelled Asia and the Middle-East and ended up with the Jesuits in Goa.
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