Driving up Walpole
One of the earliest known portraits of Sir Robert Walpole, England’s first Prime Minister, is to be sold at Cheffin’s Cambridge salerooms on May 14, as part of the collection of Cambridge academic Sir John Plumb.
This 4ft 1in by 3ft 3in (1.25 x 1.00m) oil on canvas of the hard-grafting Whig politician was painte…