The Hon. Mrs Constantine Phipps (1722-1780) being led to greet her Brother, Captain the Hon....

Hubert-François Bourguignon known as Hubert Gravelot (Paris 1699 - Paris 1773) with Jean-Etienne Liotard (Geneva 1702 – Geneva 1789) and possibly Francis Hayman (Devon 1708 - London 1776). Oil painting on canvas, The Hon. Mrs Constantine Phipps (1722-1780) being led to greet her Brother, Captain the Hon. Augustus Hervey, later 3rd Earl of Bristol (1724-1779) by Hubert-François Bourguignon known as Hubert Gravelot (Paris 1699 - Paris 1773) with Jean-Etienne Liotard (Geneva 1702 – Geneva 1789), and possibly Francis Hayman (Devon 1708 - London 1776), 1750. The six figures are: Augustus John Hervey, later 3rd Earl of Bristol (1724-1779), Mary ('Molly') Lepel, Lady Hervey (1706-1768), Constantine Phipps, 1st Lord Mulgrave (1722-1775), The Hon. Lepel Hervey, Mrs Phipps (later Lady Mulgrave) (1722-1780), Lady Mary Hervey, Lady Mary Fitzgerald (1726-1815) and her husband George Fitzgerald, MP. A painting with brilliant colours. The six full-length figures appear before the pillars of a portico with a view of the sea beyond, a small boat is immediately beyond the portico, a large ship, possibly the seventy-four-gun Princesa, a Spanish prize taken in 1740 and Hervey's first post ship, further out and another on the horizon. Lady Hervey’s dress is pink with a black shawl; Lord Hervey is in blue with gold braid, in the undress uniform of a naval captain; Mr George Fitzgerald wears a murrey-brown coat and blue waistcoat; Mrs Phipps wears a pink and white dress; Mrs Fitzgerald is in green and Constantine Phipps wears blue. Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)