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He commanded his own ship, the <i>Barbados Merchant</i>, and had a share in a plantation in Barbados. \n\nSamuel Pasfield is here represented as a child, his clothes are plausibly dating from the late 1650s or early 1660s. Samuel wears the clothing typical of children between the age of about two to four years old in the seventeenth-century.  It combines elements of adult’s dress with baby clothes. He is wearing a bodice or doublet, very similar in style to a doublet in the V&amp;A’s collections, T.91-2003. The narrowly paned sleeves were fashionable for men’s doublets between 1655 and 1665 however the petticoats were worn by both little boys and girls until the boys were breeched, between the ages of about four and seven years old.  His dress also includes the essential accessories for young children: a bib, apron and close-fitting cap.\n\nIn addition, Samuel is shown wearing the so-called ‘Pasfield Jewel’ (M.160-1922), a small whistle in form of an enamelled gold pistol set with emeralds, which was acquired by the museum in 1922 and is on permanent display in the British Galleries (room 56E). The recycling of gemstones and precious metal means that jewellery depicted in British portraits before about 1800 survives only in exceptional cases. This portrait is therefore a rare early example, relating to jewellery now in the collection. 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His great niece, Rebecca Weldon (1704-1779), was the daughter of Rebecca Callant (1671-1729), daughter of Samuel’s youngest sister, Rebecca.  Rebecca Weldon bequeathed the portrait to Catherine Dod, who married the Revd. John Oliver (1770-1828), and left most of her possessions to her younger son, the Revd. William Macjanlay Oliver (1810-1903). William Oliver bequeathed the portrait to his oldest surviving son, Captain Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1838-1907), who left it to his son, Captain Victor Pasfield Oliver, R.N., grandfather of John Oliver who gave it to the museum in 2016.\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Painting, Portrait of Samuel Pasfield as a Child wearing the Pasfield Jewel, British school, anonymous, c. 1661","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[{"text":"Canberra","id":"x34769"}],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Samuel Pasfield","id":"AUTH341768"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.2887-2016","E.2887:2-2016"],"accessionNumberNum":"2887","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2016,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-09-15","recordCreationDate":"2016-11-22","availableToBook":false}}