A half-length portrait of George Cholmondeley wearing a dark blue coat and red waistcoat with a white cravat. A ribbon at his next reads in part: ... “amore iocisque.” On his coat is the insignia of the order of the garter
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Attributed to Joseph Highmore in the Christie's appraisal.
Subject (Name):
Cholmondeley, George Cholmondeley, Earl of, 1703-1770,
LWL Ptg. 105 Framed, on view in Administration Area
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A bust-length portrait in a trompe l’oeil oval frame. The frame is inscribed G.M. 1739 on either side of a trompe l’oeil coat of arms. Montagu wears a blue velvet jacket with a white cravat. Draped over his proper right shoulder, is an ermine-lined red mantle worn by members of the House of Lords
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Van Loo by Christie's in the 2005 appraisal., and Inscribed and dated: G.M. 1732.
Subject (Name):
Montagu, George Brudenell Montagu, Duke of, 1712-1790,
Half-length portrait of Grosvenor Bedford. He is dressed in a brown coat with elaborate gold trim, a lace cravat and lace cuffs. He supports his head on his proper right hand with his elbow resting on a volume set on a table
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Grosvenor Bedford was secretary to Horace Walpole and his Deputy at the Exchequer, 1755-1771.
A half-length portrait, seated. Morse’s left hand rests on a letter inscribed to the Earl of Orford by H.C. Morse, his secretary
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Signed by the artist in lower left: Arth. Wetherill pinx., and Inscribed: To / the Earl of Oxford / by H. C. Morse / His secretary, feigned over.
A half-length portrait of Horace Walpole at middle age dressed in a purple jacket and vest with a ruffled shirt. His face is in three-quarter view as he gazes to his proper left. The top of a white feather quill is visible at the lower left. At some point the painting was cut down from an original three-quarter length preserved in a preliminary sketch by Ramsay now in the National Gallery of Scotland. The drawing shows Walpole seated at a table holding a quill pen. Only the top of the table is visible
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and It is uncertain if Walpole commissioned this portrait, but it did apparently belong to the Honorable Anne Seymour Damer, Walpole’s niece and executrix.
A half-length portrait of Horatio Walpole, in three-quarter profile turned to the sitter’s proper left. He sits in a green chair with brass tack trim against a plain background. He wears a plain blue coat with buttons and a white cravat. His curly hair is natural brown
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and A brass plate at the center bottom of the frame identifies the painting as Horatio. Earl of Orford by H. Walton.
A bust-length portrait of Horatio, Lord Walpole, younger brother of Robert Walpole. Horace Walpole called him “Old Horace.” He wears a green button coat with a simply white cravat and a long, powered wig. The sitter is identified in a cartouche at the bottom center of a simple beaded gilt frame
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Vanloo in 2005 Christie's appraisal., and This is a version of a portrait from Walpole’s collection at Strawberry Hill.
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.
The writer Lady Louisa Stuart (1757-1851) was the daughter of George III’s prime minister Lord Bute. She is shown in a cluttered interior seated in an upholstered armchair at small table desk. She leans in to closely to read an open book that she holds in her hands. Lady Louisa Stuart’s manuscript notes on John Heneage Jesse's George Selwyn and his Contemporaries,” 1843-1844 sparked W.S. Lewis’s interest in the eighteenth century
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Lady Louisa Stuart, in an interior, reading book
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal: Portrait of Lady Louisa Stuart (1757-1851), in an interior, reading book
Half-length portrait of Mary Churchill seated at a table before a plain dark backdrop. Her proper right arm and hand support her head. Her other arm rests on open book of music lying before her. She is dressed in blue and wears a transparent veil with gold ornament. On her bodice she wears an elaborate brooch with pearls and gemstones. Her identity is inscribed as Lady Mary Churchill at the upper left corner and From the 1774 edition of Horace Walpole's Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill: Lady Maria Walpole, only child of Sir Robert Walpole and Maria Skerret, and wife of Charles Churchill, only son of general Churchill; in a veil, with a music-book before her: by Eckardt. Formerly hung in the Refectory [Great Parlour] at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Lady Maria Walpole and Lady Mary Churchill
Description:
Title and artist from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Inscription in unknown hand, in top left corner: Lady Mary Churchill., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A ditto [half length Portrait] of Lady Maria Walpole, only child of Sir Robert and Maria Skerret, and wife of Charles Churchill, only son of General Churchill. Eckardt. She is represented in a veil, with a music book before her, a very charming picture.
