The Right Honorable Horatio Walpole, Esq.
After Jean-Baptiste Vanloo French
Engraver John Simon French
Sitter Horace Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton British
Not on view
A diplomat and politician, the sitter was younger brother to Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, and uncle to Horace Walpole the collector, writer and art historian. He wears a wig, velvet coat and a shirt with ruffled cuffs. Shown three-quarters length, he sits at a desk with inkstand and papers, his left elbow propped on the desk, and his right hand holding a pen.