I think this work has been made by a follower of Louis Apol. The work is A-typical and faintly in front of the signature you see the letter "N", which stands for the dutch word "naar", meaning "after", Apol was a very popular painter in his time and there are more copies than originals of him in circulation. Admirers that copied him always have put the "n" in front of the signature. Copyists with less good intensions didn't and also frequently the £n" was later removed in trying to pass a painting for an original
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