When you search for a framed portrait on canvas, you enter centuries of likenesses captured in oil paint, spanning quiet domestic studies to grand aristocratic commissions.
Several sitters pose alongside stubborn farmyard animals, racing pigeons, and baskets of apples rather than traditional family crests.
![17th Century Portrait Circle of Michael Dahl,of Sir William Cowper [1639-1706]](https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/photosnew/dealer_countryhousefineart/dealer_countryhousefineart_full_1525617097668-7609063232.jpg)
