拍品 16
16
THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY TRUST
Studio of Jean-Baptiste Van Loo (1684-1745)

細節
Studio of Jean-Baptiste Van Loo (1684-1745)

Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), half-length, in a black gold-embroidered gown, brown waistcoat, black sash and white lace cravat and collar, wearing the Order of the Bath
inscribed lower right 'Sir Robert Walpole/Died 1747'
29¾ x 24¾in. (75.5 x 62.9cm.)

拍品專文

The sitter, one of the most important political figures of the eighteenth century, serving as Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1715-17, and 1721-42. The present picture relates to the three-quarter studio version on the National Portrait Gallery, no. 70.