This strongly modelled and well-coloured portrait depicts an older gentleman of character wearing a charcoal coat with a cherry red waistcoat over a blue and white striped under-waistcoat and a frilled chemise. Under-waistcoats or ‘camisols’ were popular during the 1790s. Worn primarily for warmth, they were typically much shorter in length than the standard waistcoat. His powdered wig may date the portrait to pre-1795 when the Powder Tax was introduced though, being more mature of years, this gentleman may well have opted to pay the one guinea tax.*Set against an atmospheric stormy blue and orange background, the portrait retains a freshness of colour and has an alluring intensity. There is a small smudge to the paint on the outside edge just over the gentleman’s shoulder but otherwise the portrait is in fine condition. It is set in a bright-cut gold fausse-montre frame that is glazed on the reverse to show marbled paper.*John Hazlitt was born in Gloucestershire in 176...