Yale University Library Research Guides: Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill: BIOGRAPHICAL INFO

Selected Biographies--Links to records in Yale's Library Catalog

The Prime Minister of Taste
By Morris Brownell, 2001
Horace Walpole: A Memoir, with an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press
By Austin Dobson, 1893.
The Many Lives of Horace Walpole (video lecture)
By George Haggerty, 2017. Videorecording of the Lecture at the YCBA
Horace Walpole: A Biography
By R.W Ketton-Cremer, 1940.
Horace Walpole
By W.S. Lewis, 1960. The A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts
A Guide to the Life of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), Fourth Earl of Orford
...as illustrated by an exhibition based on the Yale edition of his correspondence : the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, October-December 1973, by W.S. Lewis
Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Subscription database entry available to members of the Yale community only.

Selected Portraits

3/4 length mezzotint portrait of Horace Walpole in dark coat, leaning one arm on a table

Horace Walpole: youngest son of Sr. Robt. Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1757, James McArdell (printmaker), after Joshua Reynolds (painter).

Portrait of Horace Walpole, age 10, shown half-length, in a long powdered wig, cravat, and blue velvet coat.

Horace Walpole afterwards Earl of Orford, ca. 1727, Bernard Lens, artist.

Horace Walpole, between 1802 and 1853?, G. P. Harding,

Mr. Horace Walpole; from Vandyck; leaning on the Ædes Walpolianæ: behind him, a view of Strawberry-hill. The frames are of black and gold

Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1754, John Giles Eccardt, (British painter, d. 1779) after Anthony van Dyck, (Flemish painter, 1599-1641, active in England)

Currently National Portrait Gallery, London. 988

Half-length portrait of Horace Walpole; his left hand leaning on the Aedes Walpolinae; a view of Strawberry Hill behind him.

Honble. Horace Walpole, not after 1824, G. P. (George Perfect) Harding, artist. After a portrait by John Giles Eccardt

Walpole sitting in chair with bookcases behind and small dog next to him

Portrait of Horace Walpole in his Library, 1755-59 Johann Heinrich Müntz, (Swiss painter, draftsman, architect, 1727-1798)

Color oil painting of Walpole, 3/4 length, as a young man in a brown coat.

Portrait of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), c. 1756-7 Joshua Reynolds, (English painter, writer, and collector, 1723-1792)

Marquess of Hertford, Ragley Hall, Warwickshire. National Portrait Gallery, London. Purchased with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Art Fund and the Dame Helen Gardner Bequest, 1999. 6520

black and white mezzotint of Walpole in 3/4 length after Reynolds

Portrait of Horace Walpole, James Macardell, (Irish mezzotint engraver), after Joshua Reynolds, (English painter)

Color oil painting of Walpole, 1/2 length view, as a young man in a mauve coat.

Portrait of Horace Walpole, c.1759 Allan Ramsay, (Scottish painter, 1713-1784)

Mr. Horace Walpole, 1768, P. Falconet (publisher), D.P. Pariset (printmaker)

Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, not after 1824, G. P. (George Perfect) Harding,1780-1853, artist, after a drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Earl of Orford, 13 July 1793, George Dance, artist

possibly by William Daniell after George Dance

Portraits

Portraits of Horace Walpole at the National Portrait Gallery (London)
The Portraits of Horace Walpole
By Charles Kingsley Adams and W.S. Lewis, 1968. Article in The Volume of the Walpole Society 42 (1968): 1-34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41829474

FYI--Family

A pedigree of Walpole to explain the portraits and coats of arms of Strawberry Hill
[graphic]. Published/Created: [Twickenham or London] : [Horace Walpole], anno 1776.

FYI--Friends and Associates

Eton "triumverate"

Charles Lyttleton

George Montagu

Eton "Quadruple Alliance"

Thomas Gray

Richard West

Thomas Ashton

"Strawberry Committee"

Richard Bentley

John Chute

Thomas Gray

Selected others:

Lady Diana Beauclerk

Agnes & Mary Berry

The Rev. William Cole

Henry Seymour Conway

Anne Seymour Damer

Mme Du Deffand

Sir Horace Mann

Countess of Upper Ossory

Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill: BIOGRAPHICAL INFO