The Whig Junto

London, UK

Gallery workers pose with The Whig Junto by the British artist John James Baker during a press viewing of the British Baroque: Power and Illusion exhibition at the Tate Britain. The exhibition focuses on baroque culture in Britain and runs from 4 February to 19 April

Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

This is the only known group portrait of the politically significant Whig Junto, an ideologically close-knit group of political peers who provided the leadership, focus and drive of the Whig party in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The portrait is signed and dated 1710, before the crushing electoral defeat of the Whigs in October of that year.