Meyten’s group portrait of the Tessins and their sixteen-year-old niece, Britta Stina Sparre, was painted in association with the embassy to Vienna, 1735-36. Carl Gustaf Tessin and his wife Ulla are dressed in hunting clothes, while their relative wears a simple costume, as if she were a servant. Tessin’s hound, a dachshund called Pehr he received as a gift from Fredrik I, is shown in the lower right corner.