When you search for an oil on canvas gentleman, you are looking at historical portraiture spanning centuries of shifting fashion and technique.
Listings feature eighteenth-century canvases alongside seventeenth-century works in oil and gold leaf.
![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)
