The title, evocative of the party-like splendour of life at Petworth, is Lawrence Gowing's. This particular version of the theme of the interior at Petworth is especially close to Rembrandt in its massing of light and shade, richness of effect and disposition of figures in an interior. The figure silhouetted against a shaft of light on the left is like that in the early Rembrandt formerly called 'The Philosopher', which seems to have passed through the London sale rooms twice in the 1790s and to have remained in this country until it finally entered the National Gallery in 1917 (3214; see Neil Maclaren, National Gallery Catalogues: The Dutch School, 1960, p.332). But Turner reinterpreted Rembrandt's relatively low-toned chiaroscuro in terms of colour which glows even in this dimly lit interior.