# Portrait of a Young Gentleman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [OLIVER, Peter]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, 37 x 29 mm ## Commentary Portrait of a Young Gentleman c. 1620 Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, 37 x 29 mm Private collection This miniature has traditionally been identified as depicting a member of the Egerton family. The most high-profile figure from that family was Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, who served as Lord Chancellor between 1593 and 1617. The miniature probably depicts one of his sons. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()