Portrait of Horace Walpole

John Giles Eccardt (fl 1740 - 1779)

Marble Hill House

1753 - 1755

Shown with a view of Strawberry Hill in the background. He is shown turned with his left arm resting on a book. He wears lace collar and cuffs and a heavy dark jacket.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 43 x 34 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £5170 ( Total: £31,170)
• ArtFunded in: 2000
• Vendor: Sotheby's

Provenance

By family descent to Charles Archibald Walpole, from whom inheritaed by Hon Pamela Walpole, by whom given to the aunt of the present owner, c1980.

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