This miniature oval portrait on copper shows a man of around thirty years of age. His hair is close-cropped and his beard neatly trimmed. He wears a lace-trimmed ruff over a tight, buttoned, black satin doublet embroidered with long horizontal bands and short diagonal stitches. The background is in a flat shade of greenish gray. Both the sitter’s coiffure and beard closely reflect fashion in the northern Netherlands during the 1580s and compare closely to those in a 1581 portrait by Adriaen Thomasz. Key (around 1544–after 1589) in the Rijksmuseum. The man’s sombre stare is further in keeping with the severe style of portraiture established by Anthonis Mor (1519–1575) in Brussels earlier in the century.