This suave but austere portrait most probably represents Sir John Fettiplace, 1st Bt, one of the many people given titles by King Charles II in recognition of their services on the Royalist side during the Civil War. Many supporters of the King had had their estates confiscated by the Parliamentarians, but Sir John Fettiplace seems to have escaped this indignity. This particular branch of the Fettiplace family traced its ancestry back to the Middle Ages, in the village of Childrey in Berkshire, where they owned a manor house which survived until the nineteenth century. The Fettiplaces acquired property at Swinbrook, near Burford in Oxfordshire, in the sixteenth century. The male line died out in 1743 and the Fettiplace family is now chiefly remembered for the set of six seventeenth century tombs in the Church of St. Mary, Swinbrook. All trace of their house has gone at Swinbrook, along with the family portraits, of which this seems to be the sole survivor.

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