The famous author Alexander Pope is depicted in three-quarter length. He is seated at a desk in a leather armchair. He turns his glance to his proper left. His right arm supports his wigged head. His elbow rests on a volume with an eligible title on the spine. In his left hand holds some leaves of manuscript. He wears a brown coat with ruffled shirt sleeves and cravat. On the desk is a silver ink well with quill and some scattered papers
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Inscription in upper left of image: Alexr. Pope.
A bust length, three-quarter profile turned to the sitter’s proper right against a dark background. He wears a powered wig, brown jacket with white cravat
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Label on frame: "Galfridus Mann 1750 (John Astley)"., In a contemporary gilt Italian frame as displayed at Strawberry Hill., and Date from Catalog of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: 1752.
Standing three-quarter portrait of General Henry Seymour Conway shown in three-quarter view. Conway wears a military breast plate and sword under his red coat indicating his military and political activities. He holds an indecipherable letter in his left hand. His right hand rests on the table on which lies a manuscript copy of the Free Porta Bill that open West Indian trade to Boston merchants and a copy of the bill for the repeal of the Stamp Act. A globe displays the western hemisphere representing Conway’s imperial activities in North America
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Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and This painting is a copy after a lost original by portrait likely by Sir Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough.
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,
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 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
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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
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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.