Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Louis William Desanges


[A Group portrait of the Waldegrave Family and their friends at Strawberry Hill]
oil on canvas
The Countess Waldegrave and her husband, the Rt. Hon Chichester Fortescue with their friends in their drawing room at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. This gothic villa was originally owned by Horace Walpole.
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b. 1822, fl. 1846 - 87.
(biography)

2 comments:

femminismo said...

Lovely looking at your art blog. Have you visited The Blue Lantern. It's one of my favorite places to go for an art lesson.

Hermes said...

Thank you. I hadn't seen that blog before.