1278. A CONVIVIAL PARTY.
Hendrik Gerritsz Pot (Dutch: about 1600-1656).
The picture is signed HP (on the side of the projecting chimney). Several pictures—chiefly conversation-pieces and portraits (including one of Charles I. in the Louvre)—bear these initials. They are supposed to belong to the above-named artist, of whom it is recorded that he visited England and made portraits of the king.
An ordinary scene of the kind, but there is a pleasant touch in the little dog who furtively licks the hand of its half-tipsy master.