Portrait of a Lady with Mask and Cherries Animals Victoria (1819-1901)

Victoria (1819-1901)

a studio or eighteenth-century copy of a picture by Van de Velde of unknown whereabouts

Adriaen van der Werff working on it for sixteen weeks and his brother and assistant Pieter van der Werff for ten weeks

but in this case the evidence is not conclusive

the father of Horace Walpole

Portrait of a Lady with Mask and Cherries Animals Victoria (1819-1901)An exercise in the style of Rembrandt, recalling his 'Saskia as Flora' in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, though that does not preculde a portrait. The catalogue of the Christie's sale, 22 January 1898 (lot 88) records a traditional identification of the sitter as Lady Anne Walpole (1733 97). She was one of the three rather plain daughters of Horatio, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton (1678 1757) and no portraits of her in her maturity are recorded. The