![Mezzotint of a light-skinned bearded man in left profile wearing a twisted band of fabric wrapped around his head.](https://godlyart.org/classicartwork/62/main.jpg)
Richard Houston was an Irish painter and etcher who worked in England. He copied paintings primarily by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This print, however, is one of at least five copies of a mezzotint by Prince Rupert, who brought this new technique to England around 1654.