 The painter is unknown but may be Flemish, possibly John De Critz (the Elder).The room depicted is likely to be an interior in Old Somerset House (rebuilt from 1775).The work includes portraits of the 11 government representatives, each seated in an elaborate chair of estate to either side of a long rectangular table covered by a fine oriental carpet of the so-called Holbein carpet type, a common object of luxury to display in Jacobean portraiture.