A boisterous scene set in Covent Garden. It is likely early morning after a night of carousing. In which the market has been disrupted by a raucous crowd. A man sits atop a sedan chair occupied by a woman. A woman raises her arm to strike a man lying on the ground in front of the sedan chair which has apparently knocked over baskets of assorted produce that are strewn in the foreground. The scene is otherwise crowded with pedlars and other more smartly dressed persons. St. Paul’s Church designed by Inigo Jones is prominent in the left background along with other buildings in the market square
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Date based on Nebot's departure from London. See Finberg.
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 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
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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.
One of a number of related versions of this portrait in the style of Liotard. The sitter, identified as Maria Gunning, was a notable beauty of her time. She wears Turkish dress, a pearl choker necklace and large pearl earrings. Her pale complexion is achieved by lead white make-up know to be poisonous
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Artist thought to be a follower of Jean-Etienne Liotard.
Subject (Name):
Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760,
A three-quarter-length portrait of Robert Walpole in a wooded landscape. He wears a blue coat and red waistcoat with the insignia of the Order of the Garter. He holds a riding crop in his proper right hand. His gloves are tucked in his belt while he holds his hat in his left hand which rests at his waist. Two horses with grooms are visible in the distant landscape
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Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Artist not identified, but English School, circa 1725., and Previously attributed to John Wootton.
A three-quarter length portrait of Sir William Killigrew. He stands before large columns on the left and a treed landscape on the right. He wears 17th century court attire and Text from both the 1774 and 1784 editions of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill: Over the chimney, an original half-length of Milton, aet. 45, in black, a ring tied to one of his button holes
Alternative Title:
Portrait of John Milton
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Horace Walpole incorrectly, or aspirationally, believed this to be a portrait of John Milton whose name is inscribed on the frame., Unknown creator., Copy after Anthony Van Dyck., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A Portrait of Milton.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Killigrew, William, Sir, 1606-1695,
Half-length portrait of Thomas Gray in profile. Gray wears a powdered wig and dark coat and vest. He gazes through a window at a landscape. Visible in the distance is St. Giles’s church at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is the setting of his Gray’s An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. The author is buried in St. Giles’s Churchyard
A half-length portrait of Mason in profile facing left. The esteemed poet is portrayed holding a manuscript of his epitaph for his wife’s grave in Bristol Cathedral
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Attributed to Falconet based on dealer correspondence in object file and confirmed by Christie’s appraisal. Dealer correspondence notes it is a slightly different version of a Falconet reproduced in Ketton-Cremer’s Thomas Gray (1955)., and William Mason was an esteemed poet, and biographer of Thomas Gray and editor of his letters. Mason was among Horace Walpole’s chief correspondents.