Portrait of Helen van der Schalcke or Helena van der Schalcke as a Child is an oil-on-panel painting by Dutch artist Gerard ter Borch, created c. 1648.

[1] The painting depicts Helena van der Schalcke (1646–1671) at the age of two years.

She also wears a large gold necklace and chic clothes with a lady's wicker bag.

He has enlivened the white with touches of paint from soft pink to blue-grey.

In the seventeenth century it was common for children to wear dresses at a young age, both girls and boys.