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Description: | RU "J Reynolds pinx.t Js McArdell fecit 1757"
Verso: Collector's marks of Fagan (Lugt 919c) and Captain Frederick Erskine Johnston CRE McARDELL, James; (Irish; 1710/28-1768) CRE REYNOLDS, Joshua, Sir; (English; 1723-1792) Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was a writer, politician and patron of the arts, the youngest son of the Prime Minster, Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745). His Correspondence tells us a great deal about the acquisitions of works of art he made as a young man on behalf of his father, the Prime Minister, for the family seat at Houghton in Norfolk. After his grand tour to Italy he had various items sent to him, including a Roman sculpture of an eagle which became a centrepiece in the library of his home at Strawberry Hill. An engraving of this Eagle can be seen in Reynolds's portrait along with books which indicate the young man's studious interests. Walpole was more than a collector, for he bought, edited and published (as his Anecdotes of painting in England) the notebooks of George Vertue who was Engraver to the Society of Antiquaries. Walpole's diaries make a number of mentions of Dr William Hunter who would have been known to him, not just as a collector, but as the physician who attended several members of his family. Walpole had an obsession with the Medici family, and wittily referred to William and John Hunter as the Saints Cosmas and Damian, who were the patron saints of the Medici family (Lewis, Wapole Correspondence 1965, vol. 32, 334). | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | DIARIST : HUNTER 2007 : PORTRAIT : ENGRAVING OF ROMAN EAGLE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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