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- Creator:
- Dixon, Nicholas, active 1660-1708, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1660 and 1707]
- Call Number:
- LWL Min. 100 Shelved in Object Room in Box 1c
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A miniature of the Lady Anne Clifford. Formerly hung in the Tribune [Cabinet] at Strawberry Hill
- Alternative Title:
- Lady Anne Clifford
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Inscribed on verso by Horace Walpole: Lady Anne Clifford., Signed by the artist with monogram in lower left., Rectangular blackened pearwood frame., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A miniature of the Lady Anne Clifford, daughter and heiress to George Earl of Cumberland, first married to Richard Earl of Dorset, and afterwards to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. She was governess to King Charles the First's children, and wrote the memoirs of her own life, a clever picture, by Dixon. Purchased from the collection of Lady Isabella Scott, daughter to the Duchess of Monmouth.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset] [art original]
3.
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1782]
- Call Number:
- LWL Ptg. 100 Framed, on view in Administration Area
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the Thames from the right bank, nearly opposite Marble Hill Park. The white building visible through the trees on the right is Lady Suffolk’s House, Marble Hill. A sailboat floats on the water. A rider on horseback leads a second horse along the riverbank. Figures gather at leisure under the foreground tree, while across the river other stroll on paths through the lawn
- Description:
- Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Formerly attributed to Richard Wilson, now attributed to his circle., and Another version of this scene is in the National Gallery. This is reproduced in W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, plate 57a. Horace Walpole records in his copy of the exhibition catalogue that Wilson exhibited a painting of the View of the Thames near Richmond at the Society of Arts 1762. This painting is not included in David Solkin’s Richard Wilson Online Catalogue Raisonné (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art).
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The Thames near Marble Hill] [art original].
4.
- Published / Created:
- [18th century?]
- Call Number:
- LWL Ptg. 101 Framed, on view in Long Hall
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A panoramic view towards St. Paul’s Cathedral includes a low horizon punctuated by Wren church steeples and a large expanse of cloudy sky. Fashionable figures stroll on the terrace of Somerset house while the river bustles with boats
- Description:
- Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and In the manner of Antonio Joli and formerly attributed to both him and Samual Scott.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Thames River (England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [View of the Thames from the terrace of Somerset House] [art original].
