Lucy Ebberton Rubens appear some fifteen years earlier

appear some fifteen years earlier and it seems possible that he is represented in costume

Venus and Mercury rest in the shade beneath a group of trees

Wouwermans was the son of one artist (Pauwels)

1768 (at nine) and it is possible this may have been Jane

It more likely relates to the representation of a locksmith in the series of prints of Le Arti di Bologna - a group of engravings depicting various trades

Lucy Ebberton Rubens appear some fifteen years earlierEngraved by J. McArdell, 1746 65, as the work of Knapton. The sitter is identified in an inscription by Horace Walpole on his own copy of the McArdell as an engraving, which states that she was the wife of 'Capt Grieg of the Marines'. Her identity is otherwise obscure. The costume suggests a date in the late 1740s.