[Portrait of a young boy, traditionally identified as Dorothy Walpole, 2nd Viscount Townshend] [art original].
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Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of a young boy, traditionally identified as Dorothy Walpole, 2nd Viscount Townshend] [art original].
A full-length portrait of a boy in three-quarter view facing left. The subject stands on an ornate rug and rests one hand on the back of a red chair. He wears a black hat with red band atop a long curly wig and lavish gold and red garments over a white cravat and ruffled sleeves. Through an open passage on the right is a landscape with a large architectural structure. A distant figure stands before it. This portrait hung at Strawberry Hill and was identified by Horace Walpole as Dorothy Townshend painted by Godfrey Kneller. Dorothy Walpole Townshend was Horace Walpole’s aunt and godmother