Lady Godiva and Earl Leofric

This oil painting by John Clifton is based on the legend of Lady Godiva, and the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1842), where Lady Godiva approaches Earl Leofric to tell him the people of Coventry have no food. The poem describes Leofric striding about the hall among his dogs, 'his beard a foot before, and his hair a yard behind...'