23 March 2010 - 4 July 2010
To coincide with the Horace Walpole exhibition at the V&A these magnificent portraits have been restored. This display offers the opportunity to see the paintings in their improved condition and discover more about their place in Walpole’s collection.
A Boy as a Shepherd (detail), Sir Peter Lely, c.1658-60, canvas 91.4 x 75.6cm, Fairfax Murray gift, 1911
Two paintings at Dulwich Picture Gallery - Sir Peter Lely’s A boy as a Shepherd and Charles Jervas’s Dorothy, Viscountess Townshend - were once part of Horace Walpole’s important collection displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival villa, Stawberry Hill. To coincide with the Horace Walpole exhibition at the V&A these magnificent portraits have been restored. This display offers the opportunity to see the paintings in their improved condition and discover more about their place in Walpole’s collection.