This is a group portrait of Charley Toorop's circle of friends. From top to bottom and l to r: a sculpture by John Raedecker, Edgar Fernhout, Rachel Fernhout Pellecaan, John Raedecker, Annie Raedecker, Gerrit Rietveld, Kocki Raedecker, Wim Oepts, Annie Fernhout, Pyke Koch, John Fernhout, Adriaan Roland Holst, Charley Toorop and Eva Besnyö. Toorop often organized dinner parties at her house in Bergen. This is not an actual assembly of guests, but a selection of her artist friends: painters, sculptors, a poet, a photographer and her children. [http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/object/3338/The-Meal-Among-Friends/Charley-Toorop] After an unsuccessful marriage to Henk Fernhout, with whom she had 3 children, Charley Toorop settled in Bergen. Painting and her artistic calling always occupied a primary position in her life. Her house De Vlerken was a meeting place for a select circle of artistic friends... [https://www.boijmans.nl/en/exhibitions/surtout-pas-des-principes-charley-toorop]