Who is Horace Walpole?

Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797) was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. Along with the book, his literary reputation rests on his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. He was the son of Sir Robert Walpole, and cousin of the 1st Viscount Nelson.

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Horace Walpole - Formal Styles From Birth To Death
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Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
... Madame du Deffand is said by Horace Walpole (in a letter to Thomas Gray) to have been for a short time the mistress of the regent, the duke of Orléans ... of her later years were with the duchesse de Choiseul and with Horace Walpole, the latter becoming the strongest and longest-lasting of all her attachments ... Walpole refused at first to acknowledge the closeness of their intimacy from an exaggerated fear of the ridicule attaching to her age, but he paid ...

John Astley (painter) - Career As Painter
... Horace Walpole claimed Astley's prominence was based "on the peculiarity of his good fortune, rather than by his exertions as an artist..." and added that "his ... of British banking heir Tyringham Backwell (1754 — 1777), painted prior to 1777 To Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, an Astley admirer and subject, Horace Walpole wrote of a visit to one of Astley's ... artist's second wife Sir Thomas Sebright, 5th baronet Sir Horace Mann (the 1751 pastel portrait was owned by Horace Walpole) Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone, his wife ...