Also known as <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> and His Friends at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaid_Tavern" class="extiw" title="w:Mermaid Tavern">Mermaid Tavern</a></b></i>. The painting depicts (from left in back) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Sylvester" class="extiw" title="w:Joshua Sylvester">Joshua Sylvester</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Selden" class="extiw" title="w:John Selden">John Selden</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Beaumont" class="extiw" title="w:Francis Beaumont">Francis Beaumont</a>, (seated at table from left) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Camden" class="extiw" title="w:William Camden">William Camden</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sackville,_1st_Earl_of_Dorset" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset">Thomas Sackville</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fletcher_(playwright)" class="extiw" title="w:John Fletcher (playwright)">John Fletcher</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon" class="extiw" title="w:Francis Bacon">Sir Francis Bacon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson" class="extiw" title="w:Ben Jonson">Ben Jonson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne" class="extiw" title="w:John Donne">John Donne</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Daniel" class="extiw" title="w:Samuel Daniel">Samuel Daniel</a>, Shakespeare, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh" class="extiw" title="w:Walter Raleigh">Sir Walter Raleigh</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton">Earl of Southampton</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Robert_Cotton,_1st_Baronet,_of_Connington" class="extiw" title="w:Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington">Sir Robert Cotton</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dekker_(writer)" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Dekker (writer)">Thomas Dekker</a>.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_Faed" class="extiw" title="w:en:John Faed"><span title="British artist (1819-1902)">John Faed</span></a>
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1851<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1851-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
Painting by John Faed