Portrait of Mr Godolphin in the uniform of an Officer of the Honourable East India Company, standing small three-quarter length, the Madras waterfront beyond; and Portrait of Mrs Godolphin, standing small three-quarter length in a garden with hollyhocks, Chepauk Palace beyond

The portraits painted at Madras: 'Havell took on a commission to accompany William Pitt, Earl Amherst of Arracan, on an embassy to China which departed in February 1816. After landing in August that year, Lord Amherst was abruptly dismissed for refusing to kowtow, in the Chinese court. Thus Havell was left in China without purpose or protector. He quickly obtained a passage to India and was established in Madras by 1820, where he supported himself by painting portraits; he also turned his hand to sketching landscapes and scenes of local life. After ten years abroad, during which he suffered cholera and yellow fever, he left India on 14 January 1826 on the Alfred bound for Liverpool.' (DNB)