Strawberry Hill ID: sh-000034
1754
Eccardt, John Giles (British painter, d. 1779)
Dyck, Anthony van (Flemish painter, 1599-1641, active in England)
Painting
Oil on canvas
39.4 x 31.8 cm
Inscriptions: on the stretcher in Horace Walpole’s hand: ‘Horace Walpole/ youngest Son of Sr R. Walpole/ by Eckardt/ 1754’.
National Portrait Gallery, London. 988
Strawberry Hill History
Location: Blue Bedchamber
1774 Description: Mr. Horace Walpole; from Vandyck; leaning on the Ædes Walpolianæ: behind him, a view of Strawberry-hill. The frames are of black and gold, carved after those to Lombard's prints from Vandyck, but with emblems peculiar to each person.(38)
1784 Description: Text same as 1774 Description (29)
Sale Text: A small Portrait of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, with a Book in his Hand, and a distant View of Strawberry Hill, in a fine old carved frame, an exceedingly clever original picture; it has been highly esteemed from its likeness to Horace Walpole, and from it the Portrait in the Catalogue has been taken. Eckardt.
Object History
Provenance: Commissioned by Horace Walpole; 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 22, lot 28, bt Rev. Hor. Cholmondeley, £34.13.0; Canon Francis Vanisttart Thornton (Rev. Chomondeley's son in law, d.1895); 1895, P. & D. Colnaghi, bt for National Portrait Gallery, London.
Exhibition History: “Second special exhibitions of National Portraits,” South Kensington (William and Mary to MCCCC), 1867, no. 377 (lent by the Rev F. V. Thornton).
"Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill," Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England, 9/20/1980-12/7/1980. no. 10.
"Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," Yale Center for British Art, 15 October 2009 - 3 January 2010; Victoria and Albert Museum, 5 March 2010 - 4 July 2010, cat. no. 40.
Bibliography: HW Corres 9: 207n, 35: 174
C. Kingsley Adams and W. S. Lewis, “The Portraits of Horace Walpole,” The Walpole Society, 42 (1970): A.10, p. 12-13, pl. 8, 10.
OHG 10
Larissa Dukelskaya and Andrew Moore, (eds.), A Capital Collection. Houghton Hall and the Hermitage. Published for the State Hermitage Museum and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), 18 reproduced.
John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790 (London: National Portrait Gallery, 2004), 367.
