Sir Thomas Sebright, Sir John Bland and Two Friends by Benjamin Ferrers, 1720

The four men sit on upholstered back stools at an oval table covered in a white cloth smoking clay pipes. A servant has entered through a narrow door with a pitcher of wine. Some of the men have removed their wigs. One wig rests on the windowsill while two additional wigs hang over the top of chairs. One candle is lighted for the entire party. Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, plate 64, page 86.