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Dorothy, Viscountess Townshend
Charles Jervasc.1718
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Dorothy Walpole (1686-1726) was the sister of Sir Robert Walpole, the father of Horace Walpole. She married Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend of Raynham in 1713. The coat-of-arms is that of Townshend impaling Walpole. It, along with the inscription, was probably added by Horace Walpole when the picture hung in his gothic-revival villa Strawberry Hill. The sitter wears Turkish-style dress of a kind fashionable from c.1718.
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Details
- Title: Dorothy, Viscountess Townshend
- Creator Lifespan: c.1675 - 1739
- Date: c.1718
- Physical Dimensions: w1038 x h1270 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Notes: See comments for other works owned by members of the Walpole family.Engraved by E. Harding, 1802.
- Work Nationality: British
- Support: Canvas
- Provenance: Raynham, Walpole family, in 1802; Raynham, Townshend family, but not in the Townshend Heirlooms sale, 1904 (an unidentified sale mark on the back of the canvas does not refer to the Christie sale of 1904); Charles Fairfax Murray; Fairfax Murray Gift, 1911.
- Artist: Jervas, Charles
- Acquisition Method: Fairfax Murray, Charles (Gift, 1911)
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