Yeah, the Baroque look.
Gee, all the wigs in those pictures have big clefts in the middle.
Maybe I'll need a landscape to offset them.
Portraits are useful because they hint at something I'm much too refined to assert openly...
...namely that I am...Ahem!...descended from English nobility. Of course, there are no nobles in my family, and I'm Irish rather than English, but I don't see why I should suffer because of that.
I'll need to find suitable women's portraits to hint at my wife's pedigree...
....something with lots of hair.
Something very ancien regime.
Something with a fashionable mole.