 The male figures progress in age from a boy at the top centre, through a mature man at the bottom centre, to a more elderly man at the top right.The older man is possibly Ben Ives; the other servants may be "Samuel"; Mary Lewis, Hogarth's wife's cousin, who later inherited the painting; and Mrs Chappel, who was known to have worked for the Hogarths in Chiswick.Ronald Paulson believes the servants featured could be a coachman, valet, page, housekeeper and two housemaids.