Hughes used a picnic as a theme for a family portrait of the Pattinson family. The title he gave was A Birthday Picnic – Portraits of the children of William and Anne Pattinson of Felling, near Gateshead.
A red table with food in the left background, but it is unclear whose birthday is being celebrated.
See Arthur Hughes. A Birthday Picnic – Portraits of the children of William and Anne Pattinson of Felling, near Gateshead (1867); Leonard Roberts. Arthur Hughes: His Life and Works, A Catalogue Raisonné (Woodbridge: 1997)