In this 1670 painting, which depicts the children of Bostonians Joanna and Anthony Mason, the artist lavished attention on the young subjects’ elaborate clothing and adornments: fashionable slashed sleeves, fancy lace, silver-studded shoes, necklaces for the girls, and a silver-headed cane for the boy. Such finery expresses the growing respect for wealth and its worldly rewards in seventeenth-century New England. David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason, 1670, The Freake-Gibbs Painter (attrib. to), American archive, 1670. Oil on canvas 39 1/2 x 42 1/2 in. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III. 1979.7.3