Lucy Ebberton Rubens Venus and Mercury rest in

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

while two diminutive assistants (his children

' A portrait of a Miss Planner was in the collection of Horace Barker (d

it is merely a depiction of everyday life

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 Venus and Mercury rest inEngraved 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.