In 1645, after his escape from the Parliamentary forces that had captured him as part of the Royalist regiment and his return to Antwerp, Hollar published a number of portraits, the most remarkable of which show three diasporic African people. The present image shows an African boy in profile, wearing a soft white collar with a pattern of pointed rays, over a white doublet fastened in the front with six buttons. Unfortunately almost all the subjects of Hollar's portraits remain anonymous, but this boy is wearing clothes typical of a servant in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century.