Seven Dials Covent Garden is a unique quarter of London whose star-shaped layout remains as constructed in the early 1690s. It was brought back to life largely through the dedication of the Seven Dials Trust, working in partnership with the local authorities and landowners for nearly forty years.

Born into a Protestant gentry's family in Hungary, by 1684 Jacob Bogdani was working as a still-life painter in Amsterdam, In June 1688 he was in London, settling at Tower Street in the parish of St Giles in the Fields. Within a just a few years he was patronised by royalty and the leading aristocratic families in England.