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White marble bust of Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, head turned to left, looking upwards, hair dressed in coils and ringlets, wearing a lightly draped dress and shawl; on a turned socle.The British sculptor Chistopher Hewetson (c1736 – 1798) carried out this work in Rome some time between 1776 and 1777. Hewetson moved from Dublin to Rome in 1765 and he remained there for the rest of his life ...
Robert Walpole, 1.° conde de Orford ( Houghton, Norfolk, 1676 - Londres, 1745), conocido entre 1725 y 1742 como Sir Robert Walpole, fue un destacado político inglés, considerado de facto como la primera persona en ocupar el cargo de primer ministro del Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña. Ocupó el poder durante casi 21 años, desde 1721 hasta 1742 ...
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons, is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great ...
Buy as a greetings card. Use this image. Maria (née Walpole), Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh. by James Macardell, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. mezzotint, published 1 January 1762 (1760-1761) NPG D33044. Find out more >. Buy a print. Buy as a greetings card.
Maria Walpole, född 10 juli 1736, död 22 augusti 1807, var en engelsk adelskvinna, i första äktenskapet grevinna av Waldegrave, och i andra äktenskapet prinsessa och kunglig hertiginna av Gloucester och Edinburgh som gift med prins Vilhelm Henrik av Storbritannien, hertig av Gloucester och Edinburgh. Hennes sista vigsel ledde till ...
By the 1730s, Walpole lived openly with his mistress Maria Skerrett, with whom he had already had a daughter. In March 1738, Walpole married her. But Maria died just a few months later in childbirth. Before leaving office, Walpole arranged to have his illegitimate daughter legitimised, and she became ‘Lady Maria Walpole’.
Horace Walpole (né Horatio ), 4e comte d'Orford, né le 24 septembre 1717 à Londres et mort le 2 mars 1797 à Londres, plus jeune fils de Robert Walpole (Premier ministre britannique), est un homme politique, écrivain et esthète britannique. Auteur en 1764 du Château d'Otrante, qui inaugure le genre du roman gothique ( gothic tale en ...
