Oval portrait of John Milton as a young man, bust in frontal view, wearing a ruff and buttoned jacket
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Title devised by curator, based on published print after this drawing., Artist unknown., After a painting owned by Arthur Onslow at the time of creation., and One of ten portraits in oil and other drawings included in George Vertue's set of engravings: The heads of the most illustrious persons of Great Britain (London : John and Paul Knapton). See all catalog records by searching call number: LWL Folio 724 743 H432 (Oversize).
Title from dealer's catalog., Date based on approximate age of the sitter and the years the artist was active in the Walpole household., and Gilt-metal mount on velvet easel stand.
A caricature conversation depicting twelve men gathered at Sir Horace Mann’s house in Florence. A numbered key at lower right identifies most the twelve men. From left to right they are. 1. Mr. Pieters [Pieters], 2 Sir H. Mann, 3. Mr Trail [Rev. James Trail], 4. Capt. Bartie [Berie], 5. Mr. Althorp, 6. [Sir Williams Wynn], 7. Ld. Cowper, 8, Ld. Neauchamp, 9. Ld. Barkley [Berkeley], 10. Mr. Farmer [Turner], 11. [Abbe] P. (or B)illori, 12. [Patch]. The artist is carrying on his back a basket of volumes of the Vocabularia della Crusca. The paintings haning on the walls include at left: The Tower of Babel, and at center a group portrait of the Academia in session, flanked on either side by pictures referring to the “Crusca.”
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
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Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Inscription in upper left of image: Alexr. Pope.
A portrait in three quarter view with subject seated at an ornate table with marble top partially covered with a fringed cloth supported by a gilt classicizing child at the corner. The setting includes a heavy drapery on the left and a colonnade on the right through which a distance landscape is visible. She wears a lace cap with a pink ribbon and a blue waist jacket over a white chemise. She holds a small bouquet of flowers on her lap
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Dorothy Clement was born in County Durham in 1715, the daughter of Hammond Clement (1692-1733) and Priscilla Clement (-1739); when she arrived in London she became a milliner’s assistant. Due to her status, she was never able to marry Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784) but with him had a son, Edward Jr. (1737-1771), and three daughters: Laura (1734-1813), who became the wife of Frederick Keppel, Bishop of Exeter; Maria (1736-1807) who married first James Waldegrave, Earl Waldegrave, and after his death, William Hanover, Duke of Gloucester; and Charlotte (1738-1789) who wed Lionel Tollemache, Earl of Dysart. Dorothy Clement died on January 17, 1739, and was buried at St James Garlickhythe Church graveyard in the City of London., Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Identifying inscription and dated 1726 on the reverse., and From Christie's 2002 appraisal: English School, 18th century.
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
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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,