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This English cabinet card portrait in fortunantely comes with nominfoirmation. The porttait is undated, but the mount suggests the 1900s decade. Theearly-1910s is possible. Given the similarity of dress, this is probably a family portrit. The age range vis faesible. They look to be about 2-15 years old. There is woman in the middle surrounded by girls, three of which are wearing bonnets. The child at the lower right may be a boy, but we are not sure. Areader writes, "At first glance, I thought the child in upper left in the sailor suit was a girl with long hair, but the more I look at her/ him the more uncertain I become. To me it is very possible that the child is a boy who has yet to have his hair cut. The girl in the far left bottom row is definitely a girl and she is wearing a ruffled sailor like collar and a bonnet like head covering as well as all the younger children except the two wearing sailor straw hats. I suspect those two are boys and are strategically placed in the picture. The image is not clear enough for me to be 100% certain but it is my guess." It is impossible to know for sure even if it was a nice clear image. If it was American I would be sure the child in the back was a girl because the long hair is not curled. We have some information on English hair styles. While not so universal, curling was very common in Britain. The French referred to ringlets as an English style. But given her age and looks, we think a girl. The child at the right is more of a question to us. We suspect a boy, in part because of what we can see of his hair. (There is no way to tell because we can not see if the children are wearing skirts or pants--the primary way to tell if the children are not named.) In addition, if this is a family group, the odds suggest that there should be a boy somewhere is the group. The sailor blouse is identical to that of the child in the back with an identical broad-brimmed hat.
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