A gentleman portrait oil painting captures individual identity and social standing through centuries of changing fashion, from stiff Elizabethan doublets to nineteenth-century frock coats.
Listings feature works spanning from the seventeenth century through the Victorian era, utilising oil on canvas, panel, and copper.
![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)
