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Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton

(1678-1757), Politician and ambassador to France and the Netherlands

Sitter associated with 10 portraits
Diplomat and Whig politician. As an M.P. for 46 years and ambassador to the Netherlands and to France, Lord Walpole played a leading role in the 18th-century Whig supremacy most especially during his younger brother, Sir Robert Walpole's long reign as Prime Minister.

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Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, by John Simon, after  Jean Baptiste van Loo - NPG D38508

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton

by John Simon, after Jean Baptiste van Loo
mezzotint, 1741 (1739)
NPG D38508

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, by John Simon, after  Jean Baptiste van Loo - NPG D14348

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton

by John Simon, after Jean Baptiste van Loo
mezzotint, 1741 (1739)
NPG D14348

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, by William Holl Sr, published by  Harding & Lepard, after  William Derby, after  Jean Baptiste van Loo - NPG D38509

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton

by William Holl Sr, published by Harding & Lepard, after William Derby, after Jean Baptiste van Loo
stipple engraving, published 1 January 1831
NPG D38509

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