Portrait of Sylvie de la Rue :: Franzois van der Donckt
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A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramon Subercasseaux :: Anders Zorn
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A Young Girl With A Basket Of Flowers :: Conrad Freyberg
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Little Girl with Head-dress :: Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff
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Portrait of a Young Girl :: Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff
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A Young Girl Resting In A Landscape With Her Dog :: Friedrich August von Kaulbach
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Cherries :: Friedrich August von Kaulbach
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When Boats Are Away :: Frank Wright Bourdillon
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A Daughter of Newlyn :: Harold Harvey
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The New Whip :: Charles Burton Barber
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Moments of Thoughtfulness :: Charles Sprague Pearce
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A Young Beauty :: Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff
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Portrait of a Young Girl :: Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff
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The Hurdy Gurdy Girl :: Jules Richomme
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The Broken Jug :: Leon Bonnat
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Home From School :: George Elgar Hicks
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Young Companions :: George Elgar Hicks
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The woodcutter's daughter :: Leon Bazile Perrault
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Her Favorite :: Le'on Bazile Perrault
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The Apple Picker :: Leon Bazile Perrault
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The Flower Vendor :: Leon Bazile Perrault
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Back to the Fountain :: Leon-Augustin L'hermitte
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A Handful of Kittens :: Ludwig Knaus
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Her Favorite Pets :: Sophie Gengembre Anderson
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Yvonne :: William Adolphe Bouguereau
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Bath Day :: Louis Marie de Schryver
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Portrait of a Girl :: John William Waterhouse
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Little Girl in Blue :: Francois Martin-Kavel
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Young Girl with Bichon Frise :: Fritz Zuber-Buhler
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Frannys Girl Grace :: Grace Carpenter Hudson
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Young Girl :: John George Brown
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Will You Have Some Fruit :: Lilly Martin Spencer
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Chinese Girl with Fan :: Robert Henri
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The Red Flower :: Robert Reid
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The Flower Girl :: Thomas Waterman Wood
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Gore Teasing The Cat :: William Henry
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Friends :: Ralph Hedley
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The Blue Ribbon :: Charlotte Major Wyllie
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Christmas Greetings :: Edward Hughes
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Elisabeth (or Cornelia) Vekemans as a Young Girl :: Cornelis De Vos
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Portrait of a Girl at the Age of 10 :: Cornelis De Vos
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Beg Sir :: Alfred Patten
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The Spring :: Henry Hetherington Emmerson
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A Good Read :: George Bernard O'Neill :: George Bernard O'Neill
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Making Friends :: Percy Harland Fisher
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A Friend in Need :: Emile Auguste Hublin
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Feeding the Bird :: Jan Portielje
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A Stitch In Time :: Walter Anderson
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Best of Friends :: Emile Vernon
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Girl Holding a Nest :: Emile Vernon
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The Cherry Bonnet :: Emile Vernon
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Three Sisters :: Emile Vernon
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Young Girl Reading :: Federigo Zandomeneghi
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The Children's Game :: Franz Wiesenthal
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A Young Girl called Princess Charlotte :: Franz Xavier Winterhalter
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Sisterly Love :: Francois Alfred Delobbe
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Distant Thoughts :: Fritz Zuber-Buhler
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Pincess Clothilde von Saxen Coburg :: Franz Xavier Winterhalter
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Princess Charlotte of Belgium :: Franz Xavier Winterhalter
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Roza Potocka :: Franz Xavier Winterhalter
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Foster Mother :: Charles Sillem Lidderdale
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Pet Canary :: Robert Gemmell Hutchison
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Young Girl at the Well :: Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen
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The Cherry Thieves :: Fritz Zuber-Buhler
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The First Cherries :: Fritz Zuber-Buhler
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The Lesson :: Fritz Zuber-Buhler
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Young Girl Holding a Doll :: Fritz Zuber-Buhler
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In the Garden :: Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau
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The Little Rose of Lyme Regis :: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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Portrait of a Girl Dressed in Blue :: Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck
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Portrait of Rudyard Kipling's Daughter :: Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau
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Portrait of Phyllis Waterlo :: John William Waterhouse
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Little Lizie Lynch :: Julian Alden Weir
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It's amazing how these portraits differ, although their heroine is a little girl everywhere. We can only rejoice that in different centuries artists have a desire to capture it, and now thanks to these pictures it's possible feel fully how the life of children of vary ages and strata of society is different. In fact, they are united only by the presence of a touching creature, often meek and modest, with a gentle smile and something naive in their eyes, even when she is trying to look serious and [Expand]
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Dirck Dircksz. van Santvoort (1610 – 1680)
Portrait of Clara Alewijn, 1644
Oil on canvas, h 122cm x w 89.5cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Clara Alewijn was only nine years old when she sat for this painting.
It is the pendant of the portrait of her brother Martinus. Mirroring him, Clara is portrayed as shepherdess sitting beneath a tree and surrounded by sheep. She holds a staff and flowers in her right hand. The bow and quiver in the foreground refer to hunting. Her festive fantasy [Expand]
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