The sitter is shown wearing a dark doublet and wide linen ruff set into figure-of-eight pleats. Based on the family crest in the upper left corner the subject is believed to be Sir George Fermor of Easton Neston who served under the Prince of Orange in the Netherlands and was knighted by the Earl of Leicester in 1586. It is unlikely however that this painting, in which the sitter's age is given as 40 could have been painted as late as 1601, and the sitter may be an older member of the Fermor family.