Family portrait of Antonie Charles de Liedekercke, wife Willemina van Braeckel and son Samuel

Ter Borch's family portrait of Antonie Charles de Liedekercke with his wife Willemina van Braeckel and their son Samuel from around 1650 represents his mastery of the Dutch family group portrait—one of the most demanding genre categories requiring the integration of multiple individual likenesses within a convincingly unified spatial setting. The De Liedekercke family were part of the Flemish-Dutch merchant elite whose commercial networks connected Antwerp, Amsterdam, and the German trading cities, and the portrait's formal dignity asserts the family's prosperity and civic standing. Ter Borch's handling of the spatial relationship between the three figures—their eye contact and body orientation creating a triangle of familial relationship—demonstrates the compositional intelligence that distinguished his group portraits from more mechanical juxtapositions of individual likenesses.

The three figures are arranged to convey both family unity and individual character, with ter Borch's characteristic attention to costume details establishing social status. The restrained palette and careful spatial arrangement create an image of domestic harmony.