Barent Avercamp was a pupil of his uncle Hendrick (1585–ca.1663) and adopted his characteristic subject matter of small, lively genre scenes set in and around Kampen, The Netherlands. Hendrick Avercamp was one of several early-seventeenth-century painters who, inspired by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, painted scenes of winter activities and games. These paintings include details like the ones seen here: bearded burghers looking on disapprovingly, a well dressed woman in her horse drawn sleigh, and younger men playing kolf, a golf-like game played on ice.