The Audience Chamber is at the south-west corner of the Queen’s Apartments, between the Presence Chamber and the Ballroom. The ceiling painting by Antonio Verrio depicts Catherine of Braganza (Queen Consort of Charles II) being pulled in a chariot by swans towards the Temple of Virtue, and there is an original cornice and overmantel frame by Grinling Gibbons. The decoration of the room is very similar to that in the Presence Chamber. However, in 1807 the original overmantel was replaced with Edward Wyatt’s remarkable carved panel, intended at once to blend with and to emulate the seventeenth-century work. Edward Wyatt was a cousin of the King’s architect, James Wyatt, through whose influence he was in 1798 appointed carver and gilder to the Office of Works.
The King's Dining Room at Windsor Castle is one of the three rooms of the Baroque palace built for Charles II in 1675–83 that retains its seventeenth century interior. It is overlooked by a ceiling painted by Antonio Verrio in the 1680s depicting a feast of the gods.