Sir Robert Clayton

Sir Robert Clayton stands before a green damask drapery, with his body turned slightly to his right, and faces the beholder. In contrast to his dark eyebrows he wears a powdered bag wig with a high toupee, with a buff-coloured suit with a fashionable low standing collar and gold buttons and trim. To display his lace stock and cuffs his arms are crossed over his cane from which hangs a black tassel ribbon. In the upper hand, his right, he holds a black tricorn hat. The inscription on the back of the canvas suggests that the portrait was commissioned to mark the sitter’s inheritance of the baronetcy.