Dorothy, Viscountess Townshend Raphael and he was always famous

and he was always famous for his horses

He was more noted for his pomposity and ambition than for any achievement

and in the centre the ruins of the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor

The sitters are identified on a label

Gudlaugsson's attribution to De Moor (on photograph mount

Dorothy, Viscountess Townshend Raphael and he was always famousDorothy Walpole (1686 1726) was the sister of Sir Robert Walpole, the father of Horace Walpole. She married Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend of Raynham in 1713. The coat of arms is that of Townshend impaling Walpole. It, along with the inscription, was probably added by Horace Walpole when the picture hung in his gothic revival villa Strawberry Hill. The sitter wears Turkish style dress of a kind fashionable from c. 1718. A somewhat simplified version