What is certain is that, while in this picture he purposely returned to the triumphs of portraiture of his youth, he did not give up the artistic ideals of his middle life.

He gave his sitters an equal importance in position and lighting, and at the same time painted a picture artistically satisfying.

Not one of the six men could have had any fault to find with the way in which he was portrayed.

Each looks equally prominent in vivid life.

Yet they are not a row of six individual men, but an organic group held together you hardly know how.