Sr John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland [art original].Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, artist[ca. 1762]engCopy of a portrait of Sir John Perrot, for Horace Walpole at Strawberry HillTitle from note in Horace Walpole's hand, written in ink on the back of the frame: Sr. John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland.Attributed to Chambars by Walpole in the Vertue notebooks. See Walpole Society, 1937-38, xxvi, p.62.Possibly commissioned circa 1763. See Walpole's letter to Bishop Lyttleton, 16 October 1762. See 1983 Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 43, p. 384n.The original on which this drawing is based was used by Valentine Green for his mezzotint print published in Jany. 1, 1776, from a copy made by George Powle. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits, v. iii, p. 453.Thomas Chambars, (ca. 1724-1789), English artist.