This painting depicts John Pybus (1727–1789), his wife Martha Pybus (1733–1802), and their four children – Martha holding a ribbon-trimmed hat, Anne savouring a rose’s scent, John Pybus Junior seated on the ground before his sisters, and Charles Small Pybus standing on his mother’s lap. It can be dated to around 1769, based on the ages of the children.

　John Pybus commenced his employment with the East India Company in 1742, at the tender age of fifteen. During the next two decades he worked at various East India Company appointments in India and Indonesia, returning permanently to England with his family in 1768. In 1769, Nathaniel Dance had exhibited full-length portraits of the ruling monarchs, George III and Queen Charlotte, at the newly founded Royal Academy. John Pybus’ choice of the fashionable Dance as artist, indicates both his social aspirations and the wealth he had accrued abroad.

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　This charming painting depicts John Pybus (1727–1789), an official with the East India Company, his wife, Martha (1733–1802), and their four children: Martha (1758–1788), shown holding a ribbon-trimmed hat; Anne (1756–1791), savouring the scent of a rose; John (1754–1808), seated on the ground in front of his sisters; and Charles (1766–1810), standing on his mother’s lap. This family portrait can be dated to c.1769, on the basis of the ages of the children as they appear in the painting.

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