Hi Richard!
Welcome to the forum.
Since you posted in the Critique, i will try to find some flaws in the otherwise lovely work.
I share perplexity about the background, I think you might want to do something about it.
Also i am concerned ny the arm. It is in the foreground but has a different standard of finishing. Observe your reference. Is there any evidence of muscles' bulks. Is there any change in colour and tone as the eye travels along it toward the hand?
Maybe you could darken it as if it was just at the edge of a spotlight.
Very nice portrait !
Ilaria
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