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.