Painted from the interior of Coward's home, White Cliffs, St.Margaret's Bay, this painting is just discernable in the top left hand corner of a photograph of Coward with Alfred Lunt, Joan Fontaine and Cecil Beaton illustrated in Cole Lesley's book The Life of Noël Coward.
Captain Edward Molyneux was a couturier who Coward first met in Paris in the early 1920s. He designed costumes for London Calling, Easy Virtue, and perhaps most famously, the bias cut dress worn by Gertrude Lawrence in the balcony scene in Private Lives.