A gentleman and lady of the Pugh family; he, in black coat and waistcoat, white shirt and black tied cravat; forget-me-nots and pansies foreground with sky and cloud background (artist's joins); and she, in lace-bordered white dress with pleated bodice and diaphanous gauze sleeves, pink stole draped across her shoulders, drop gold earrings, her dark brown hair elaborately plaited and curled in an Apollo knot; forget-me-nots and foliage foreground with sky and cloud background (artist's joins)

A handwritten label written in biro on the reverse of these two miniatures identifies these sitters as the brother and sister of Martha Pugh. The daughter of Martha Pugh and her husband Arthur of Lissadrone, co. Mayo and Fitzwilliam Square, Jane Elizabeth married Jonathan Rashleigh (b. 1820) of Menabilly as his second wife. Their son Arthur Rashleigh (b. 1871) married Edith Letica Anne, daughter of Sir William Emerson-Tennant, 2nd Bt. and had two daughters, Duane Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and Rosamund Christabel who married Sir John Charles Patrick Langham, 14th Bt. on 1 October 1930.
Menabilly, near Fowey, Cornwall was to inspire the novelist Daphne du Maurier and in 1943 she leased the house from Dr John Rashleigh. She called Menabilly her 'House of Secrets' and wrote her first novel, The King's General, while living there. It was also to provide the backdrop of Manderley in Rebecca so memorably adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.