Gold canvas art encompasses centuries of oil paintings on stretched fabric, where gilded frames and luminous pigments illuminate portraits, landscapes and historic scenes.
Several canvas portraits preserve the stern likenesses of seventeenth-century gentlemen wearing remarkably stiff white ruffs.
![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)
