The Burgomaster’s Daughter–Skating Costume, Seventeenth Century
Not on view
A comely young woman stands next to a snow-covered railing before a frozen river. She wears a fur-lined cloak fastened with an ornamented metal clasp, an embroidered apron and gloves. One hand holds a fur muff and the other a pair of skates and distant figures appear behind her on the ice near gabled buildings along the opposite shore. A burgomaster was the mayor of a Dutch, German or Swiss town, in this case his wealth implied here by his daughter's fine clothing. The skates and architecture indicate a setting in Holland and Boughton likely consulted historical prints or a collection of seventeenth-century clothing to create the related painting that he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1882.
