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Catherine, Lady Walpole (née Shorter; 1682 – 20 August 1737) was the first wife of the first British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole.
Catherine, Lady Walpole. Dahl's half-length painting of Sir Robert's wife Catherine shows the sitter as a young woman and hangs today at Houghton Hall today. In actuality, Lady Walpole did not feel comfortable at Houghton and preferred her house on Dover Street, London.
Catharine Shorter, Lady Walpole, 1st wife of Sir Robert Walpole. d.1737. RCIN 663356. Description. O'D 1. 1/2 length, leaning on wall before her, full face, dark drapery dependent from the head, plain bodice cut low in front with ribbon at at bosom, arms folded before her on wall, which is partly covered with drapery. 1st state. People involved.
Hace 5 días · Catherine, Lady Walpole, wife of Sir Robert Walpole, Viscount Walpole and Baron Houghton, has a white marble memorial in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. The square plinth is by sculptor J.M. Rysbrack surmounted by a copy of a Roman statue of Modesty by F. della Valle.
Title: Portrait of a Woman. Artist: Michael Dahl (Swedish, Stockholm 1659–1743 London) Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 77 1/4 x 51 3/4 in. (196.2 x 131.4 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of Margaret Bruguière, in memory of Louis Bruguière, 1956. Accession Number: 56.224.1. Learn more about this artwork.
Hace 2 días · Overlooking this monument is a beautiful piece of sculpture, also the work of an Italian artist, named Valory, to the memory of Catherine, Lady Walpole.
15 de oct. de 2013 · Houghton Hall. Sir Robert never traveled abroad and never experienced the grand tour, except vicariously through his son, the writer and wit Horace Walpole. Yet he had the cultivated taste and classical education that informed his collecting habits, and he probably regarded his house and artworks as an extension of his public role.
