This striking portrait is likely to be of the artist himself. The possible identification is based on his much older appearance in a painting executed in 1668 which is only known through copies and an engraving of 1676. On stylistic grounds, the picture can be placed in the 1640s, based on comparison with many surviving single male portraits from this period. The artist also painted his wife at approximately the same time as himself in a work recently identified in the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, on the basis of a signed drawing.

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