This is my copy of one of the most famous portraits of Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745). It was painted by French portrait painter, Jean Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745) when Walpole was 64 years of age. Van Loo was in England in 1740 when he painted the portrait.
Read Walpole’s entry in PMs on the Pan.
See the original painting at Britain’s National Portrait Gallery.
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