This oval portrait shows a man in three-quarter pose facing the viewer. He holds a cushion in his right gloved hand and supports it from below with his left. Above the carefully inscribed name of Martinus Ludovicus Michel appears a coat-of-arms (undocumented) divided into a red field with three silver fleurs-de-lys and a golden field with a green tree, and crowned by ornamental elaborations. Although the sitter was otherwise unknown, he can be connected with some confidence with a prominent Mechelen physician, partly on the grounds of the stylistic link of this portrait to a member of the artistic dynasty of the Coxies, firmly entrenched in that city.