Group portrait of Sir Humphrey Style, 1st Bt., with is wife Elizabeth, full-length, the former in a yellow doublet and buff breeches, holding a black hat in his left hand, the latter in a green dress with a pink wrap, a page with a dog beside them, against a portico in an extensive landscape

Sir Humphrey Style, of Langley, was the son of William Style and his first wife Anne, daughter of John Eversfield, of Den, in Sussex, and the great-grandson of Sir Humphrey Style (d.1557), also of Langley, one of the Esquires of the Body to King Henry VIII and also Sheriff of Kent. The Style family had come to prominence at the outset of the sixteenth century through the successful mercantile activities of the sitter's great-great-grandfather Sir John Style who became an Alderman of the City of London.

Sir Humphrey Style, who was appointed a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber by King James I and was later Cup-Bearer to King Charles I, was created a Baronet on 20 May 1627. His wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter and heiress of Robert Pershall, of Lincoln's Inn, and the widow of Sir Robert Bosvill, of Eynsford. On his death in 1659, without issue, the Baronetcy became extinct and he was succeeded in the estate of Langley by his half-brother William Style, the eldest son from his father's second marriage. Sir Humphrey's sister Anne, married Sir Nicholas Miller of Oxenhoath, Kent (for whom see the following lot).