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This cabinet portrait shows four young children, presumbly sibling, dressed up in their best clothes. The children look to be about 1-7 years of age. The older boy wears a striped sailor suit with Norfolk styling. If the cabinet card was not identified, we might have guessed the children were German. We have no seen asuit quite like this in Britain. The top is a kiknd of cross between a blouse and tunic. It has a complicated mix of striping and segmented ptterns. This is repeated on the scarfe. We re not sure about the clor, but it was p[robably blue. The dark dickey has a reef and crown pattern. The girls wears identical white dresseswith eyelet lace and hairbands and bows. The other boy is a baby. The portrait is undated, but looks like the 1900s to us. This would be consistent with the mount. The very-late-1890s or early-1910s is possible, but the 1900s seems the most likely. The studio was Ch. Ketels, Furnes. This is a village in the Ringsaker municipality of Hedmark County located in southeastern Norway.
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