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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: THE TRIFLER RESORED Connoisseur Manque The Courtesy-Book Gentleman and the ar, . t0. Lord Chesterfield's Vade-Mecum for the Manof fTaS:-'' PART I THE MAKING OF A PORTRAITIST CHAPTER 2 NO CONNOISSEUR, COLLECTING ON THE GRAND TOUR 'My Glorious Eagle' 'Far Gone in Medals': Stosch's Gladiator 'Two or Three Pictures' CHAPTER 3 KEEPER OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S PICTURES Accumulating Capital Pictures Aedes Walpolianae: Putting Down Italian Painters Aedes Walpolianae: Panegyrical Pictures 'The Shipwreck of my Family': Sale of the Houghton House Collection CHAPTER 4 GEORGE VERTUE, WALPOLE'S PRIVY COUNCILLOR FOR PORTRAITS 'The First and Chiefest of his Profession' 'Mr Walpole Told Me': Meetings with George Vertue 'Now Mr Walpole's' Rummaging Country Houses for Portraits No Antiquary: Ghost Writing English Art History PART II A LITTLE CASTLE ADORNED WITH PORTRAITS CHAPTER 5 PORTRAITS AT STRAWBERRY HILL-I Anne Liddell and Walpole's Dream of Portraits The Marriage of Henry VI, and 'The Sagacity of my Guesses' The Marriage of Henry VII, and the Pleasure of Imaginary Portraits. Catherine Parr's Corpse CHAPTER 6 PORTRAITS AT STRAWBERRY HILL-II 'Monumenting' Portraits Lady Frances Howard,'Madame l'Empoisonneuse' Frances Brydges, Countess of Exeter Catherine Fitzgerald, 'My Old Countess of Desmond' CHAPTER 7 PORTRAITS AT STRAWBERRY HILL-III Walpole's'Rage for Grammont' Walpole's 'Chapter of Royal Concubines' Bianca Cappello Ninon L'Enclos, 'N6tre Dame des Amours' 'The Sweet Portrait of Madame de Prie' Twenty Pictures of Madame Maintenon 'Our Madame Maintenon' Possessing Madame d'Olonne PART III PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS CHAPTER 8 IDENTIFYING PORTRAITS: WALPOLE'S CATALOGUES AND LETTERS Walpole's Society of Artists' Catalogue (1762) Walpole's Royal Academy Catalogue (1771) Portraits in Walpole's Memoirs and Letters CHAPTER 9 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: MARIA WALPOLE A Wedding Portrait Lady Waldegrave in Mourning 'The Transitory Happiness of Red Liveries' The Three Ladies Waldegrave CHAPTER IO PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: MARRIAGE A LA MODE Lavinia Bingham, Lady Althorp Frances Pelham Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston CHAPTER I I PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: SCANDAL Sir Henry Bate Dudley William O'Brien Elizabeth Catherine Hunter Lord and Lady Ligonier Dorothy Seymour Fleming CHAPTER 12 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: ARISTOCRATS Sir Hugh Smithson, 'Antiquated Duke' CHAPTER 13 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: STATESMEN Richard Grenville, 'Historic Strulbrug' John Montagu, A 'Dissolute Sad Dog' CHAPTER 14 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: OUTPENSIONERS Chevalier D'Eon, 'A Complication of Abominations' Baron Ferrers, 'Mad About Pedigree' / Edward Wortley Montagu, 'Our Greatest Miracle' CHAPTER 15 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: MODERN LITERATI Samuel Johnson, 'Saucy Caliban' Edward Gibbon,'Vanity is not Vice' CHAPTER 16 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: TWO GROUPS Reynolds's Bedford Children Zoffany's Tribuna, Equivocating About Portraits CHAPTER 17 PORTRAITS IN WALPOLE'S LETTERS: THE GUNNINGHIAD Et in Arcadia Ego, The Ghost of Maria Gunning Elizabeth Gunning, 'Uncommon Noise of Beauty' John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll PART IV CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER 18 WALPOLE'S SELF-PORTRAIT, THE PRIME MINISTER OF TASTE Walpole's Letters, A Masquerade of Self-Portraits The Self-Portrait of the Trifler The Herald of Fame The Enemy of Artists Homo Ludens Short Titles and Abbreviations Notes Notes to the Illustrations Index