It is difficult, but not impossible, to imagine this the same man, eight years younger, as depicted in the portrait of Sir John Townshend, RN15. This portrait, made in 1590, depicts a man in the twenty-first year of his life wearing a simple doublet and linen collar. Unusually, the top-right inscription is in Spanish, which is more or less unprecedented for British portraiture of this period and casts a little doubt on the identity of the sitter. An approximate translation would be ‘higher thoughts than fortune’.