In August 1817, the artist was commissioned to paint portraits of the van Herzseele family in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig" class="extiw" title="w:Leipzig">Leipzig</a>. Three images were produced in the following months. Raphael Oskar van Herzeele (born 1812 in Amönau/Marburg), son of Pieter van Herzeele and his wife Dorothee, is shown here at age 5.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Caroline_Bardua" class="extiw" title="w:en:Caroline Bardua"><span title="German painter (1781-1864)">Caroline Bardua</span></a>
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1817<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1817-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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