The volume continues a chronological study of the artist's later career, analyzing major commissions, civic and court portraiture, and travels that shaped his work. It examines paintings made for merchant guilds and civic decoration, a celebrated double portrait of diplomats, and a series of mature portraits produced during his service at court including a notable royal commission. The text also treats his miniature practice, Windsor drawings and studies, designs for jewellery and the decorative arts, a civic barber-surgeons' picture and the painter's final years, and concludes with appendices cataloguing chief works, drawings, and exhibition records.