# Portrait of a Boy as Daifilo [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 61 x 51 cm ## Commentary This is the earliest extant portrait by van den Eeckhout. The painter had a clear preference for history paintings and portraits such as this are relatively rare in his oeuvre. The sitter is presented here as Daifilo, a shepherd who was one of the young lovers in Granida, a pastoral play by Pieter Cornelisz Hooft \(c. 1605\). Granida was the first pastoral play in the Dutch language, a fact which may explain its enduring popularity throughout the seventeenth century. Van den Eechkout himself painted a number of works on the theme. ## Related artworks - [A Musical Party]() - [Abraham and the Three Angels]() - [Bathing Men]() - [Elisha and the Shunammite Woman \(detail\)]() - [Elisha and the Shunammite Woman]() - [Isaac Blessing Jacob \(detail\)]() - [Isaac Blessing Jacob]() - [Jeroboam's Sacrifice at Bethel]() - [Party on a Terrace]() - [Portrait of a Family]() - [Portrait of Maria Dircksdr. Bogaert]() - [Presentation in the Temple]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()