A family was left stunned after discovering a painting of a child who looks very similar to their 7-year-old son while they were staying at a Bread and Breakfast.

Mother Jennie Stevenson said that she and her family were on their way home from a ski trip when they decided to stay at a ‘secluded’ property.

But while they were about to have dinner in the communal dining room, they found something eerie.

“My daughter just went, ‘Mum, there’s a picture of Barney on the wall,’” Jennie said.

When she went closer to the painting, she was shocked to see an image of her 7-year-old son staring back at her.

The painting was created by Carl Larsson and it shows a little girl, who looks exactly like Jennie’s son, except for her long hair.

Taking to Twitter, she shared a side by side photo of the painting and her son and wrote: “Just arrived at our secluded rural B&B to find a painting of our youngest child depicted as a small girl. There’s absolutely no terrifying precedent for this, so it’s probably fine.”

She added in the comments: “Woke up at some point to a terrifying papery noise (think riffling of pages or a deck of cards) but we all survived.”

Twitter users were quick to share their thoughts, with one person writing: “The noise could be the child trying to escape the painting.”

Another said: “In Sweden, Easter is when all the witches fly to the Blue Mountain, so I’m going to assume yes?”

A third said: “I’m a portrait artist. The two kids look very different. Her eyes are bigger, their upper lip is different, and he has puffy cheeks, unlike hers.”

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