 The regents of the city of Leiden may have chosen "The Young Mother" to augment the yacht "Mary" as a means to encourage Charles to look after the interests of the House of Orange in the Netherlands, which had lost effective political power in 1650.At the time of the Restoration, Charles' sister Mary was in perilous political waters as the guardian of her son, Prince William III of Orange.This was one of those works repatriated by William III and is now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague.