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Catherine, Lady Walpole (née Shorter; 1682 – 20 August 1737) was the first wife of the first British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole. Origins [ edit ] She was a daughter of Sir John Shorter (born 1660), of Bybrook, in Kent, a wealthy merchant (the son of Sir John Shorter (1625–1688), Lord Mayor of London ), by his wife ...
- Catherine Shorter, 1682
- St Martin at Tours' Church, Houghton
Catherine, Lady Walpole. Dahl's half-length painting of Sir Robert's wife Catherine shows the sitter as a young woman and hangs today at Houghton Hall today. In actuality, Lady Walpole did not feel comfortable at Houghton and preferred her house on Dover Street, London.
3 giorni fa · Catherine, Lady Walpole, wife of Sir Robert Walpole, Viscount Walpole and Baron Houghton, has a white marble memorial in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. The square plinth is by sculptor J.M. Rysbrack surmounted by a copy of a Roman statue of Modesty by F. della Valle.
Overlooking this monument is a beautiful piece of sculpture, also the work of an Italian artist, named Valory, to the memory of Catherine, Lady Walpole. The statue stands upon a square pedestal, upon which is an inscription which states that she was the first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, and that " 'Horace, her ...
To the memory of Catherine Lady Walpole, eldest daughter of John Shorter, Esqr. of Bybrook in Kent and first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, Horace her youngest son consecrates this monument. She had beauty and wit without vice or vanity, and cultivated the Arts without affectation.
OD 1. 1/2 length, leaning on wall before her, full face, dark drapery dependent from the head, plain bodice cut low in front with ribbon at at bosom, arms folded before her on wall, which is partly covered with drapery. 1st state.
Sitter: Catherine, Lady Walpole (British, ca. 1682–1737) Sitter: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (British, Houghton, Norfolk 1676–1745 London) Sitter: Edward, Earl of Warwick (British, 1475–1499) Date: 1798. Medium: Illustrations: stipple engraving, engraving and etching. Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (31.8 x 24.1 cm) Classification ...
