This early painting attributed to the Venetian painter Marco Ricci is thought to have been painted while he was in England between 1710 and 1715. The Royal Yacht Fubbs, 148 tons, (named after Charles II's favourite mistress, the Duchess of Portsmouth) can easily be identified as it was the only ketch-rigged Royal Yacht of the Stuart period. Built by Sir Phineas Pett at Greenwich in 1682, she originally carried a crew of 30 men and was armed with 12 3-pdrs. mounted on her 73½ foot gundeck. Rebuilt at Woolwich in 1701, her tonnage was raised to 157 bm. and her crew was likewise increased to 40. In 1724 she was rebuilt again, this time at Deptford, and in 1749 she was altered for the last time when it was decided "to have her deck raised as much as conveniently may be." Her timbers having finally rotted after a century of use, she was broken up in July 1781.