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Despite Rosenboom's early death, he managed to produce a substantial number of cavases. This is particularly impressive given that is working span was only one decade. And given his age of death, the paintings while many are undated would have been done in the period 1865-75, probably mostly in the early-1870s period. The works portray charming childood genre scenes, in many cases not involving the adults. The children are always impecably dressed, even at the beach. We see many images of Belgian children playing at home with toys or a range of games. We note a delightful image of a boy delighting his younger sisters with his puppets. Here a girl is teasing her brother with a feather (figure 1). We also see the children engaged in a range of realistic growing up experiences such as tasting wine--something you do not see in the stright-laced United States. This is all something that the studio photography of the day cannnot offer us, but is an invaluable addition to the period image record. Most of his iamges trend to be be less formally staged than we see on the previous page at the beach. We are not sure vwho the children were that he painted. We are assuming that hee had children pose for his work. A reader writes, "I have looked at other examples of his work and I think he used the same group of children. Possible family or friends children."
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