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Walpole, Horace
Walpole, Horace (1717–97). English collector, connoisseur, man of letters, and amateur architect. He was the fourth son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime minister, and in 1791 he became 4th Earl of Orford. In 1739–41 he made the Grand Tour, travelling in France and Italy with the poet Thomas Gray. His literary fame rests on his voluminous correspondence and on The Castle of Otranto (1764), the first ‘Gothic novel’. In the history of taste he is primarily important for his house at Twickenham, Strawberry Hill, which he bought in 1747 and extended into a showpiece of the Gothic Revival, employing professional architects to work from his sketches. He filled the building with his collections and it became such a tourist attraction that he had to issue admission tickets. In 1757 Walpole established his own printing press at Strawberry Hill, from which he issued his Anecdotes of Painting in England (4 vols., 1762–71), based on Vertue's notebooks.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Walpole, Horace." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Walpole, Horace." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-WalpoleHorace.html IAN CHILVERS. "Walpole, Horace." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-WalpoleHorace.html |
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