Portrait of a gentleman, possibly Charles Fitzmaurice, half-length, in a blue coat trimmed with gold and a yellow waistcoat, feigned oval

Charles Stoppelaer (fl.1703-1745) was one of several foreign artists painting in Ireland in the first half of the 18th Century. He was admitted to the freedom of the Corporation of Painter-Stayners and Cutlers, in Dublin in 1708, and is recorded as painting still lives as well as portraits. An example of his portraiture is in the National Gallery of Ireland.