Like the Man Eating from an Earthenware Pot (SK-A-1600), the other work by Daniel Boone in the Rijksmuseum, this painting in handling and the subject matter appears to owe as much to Egbert van Heemskerk I (c. 1634-1704) as to any Flemish artist of the time, though there is a connection with the Backgammon Players by David Teniers II (1610-1690) at Budapest of circa 1660.8 A source that both Van Heemskerk and Boone have in common may well have been the work of Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685), active in Haarlem, for instance the Card Players in an Inn of 16559 or the Three Peasants Drinking of the early 1660s.10 Comparable in Van Heemskerk’s oeuvre is perhaps the Peasants Making Merry of 1660. 11 As with SK-A-1600, it is hazardous to propose a date of execution of the present picture as there are no dated extant paintings by Boone. But it may date from the 1660s or later. The support of west German or Netherlandish oak would have been ready for use in 1644 or more plausibly from ten year later. A similar long, low table with a flagon on it was included in Boone’s Backgammon Players sold at Versailles on 25 November 1984; in that picture a barrel was placed in front of it. Gregory Martin, 2022