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This full-length colour portrait depicts Villiers standing with one hand resting on a cloth-covered table to the left and his other hand on his hip. He is formally and very richly dressed in a white doublet and pumpkin breeches beneath an ornately draped red velvet over-garment. His legs appear bare, with a jewelled garter beneath one knee; and he wears heeled shoes, fastened with fancy rosettes. His face, in half-profile, is framed by a starched lace collar; and his dark hair is swept back. Heavy swags of purple curtain hang on either side, giving the whole portrait the air of being highly staged.