# Charlotte Walpole, afterwards Countess Dysart [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COTES, Francis]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 76 x 34 cm ## Commentary Charlotte Walpole, afterwards Countess Dysart c. 1760 Oil on canvas, 76 x 34 cm The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Charlotte Walpole \(1738-1789\) was the youngest of the three illegitimate daughters of Sir Edward Walpole \(1706-1784\) and niece of the author, Horace Walpole \(1717-1797\). In 1760 she married Lionel Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, son of the 4th Earl of Dysart \(1734-1799\), who wed her in secret without the knowledge or consent of his father. He became the 5th Earl of Dysart in 1770. This painting is one of a pair, the other depicting her sister, Laura Louisa Walpole, wife of the Hon. Frederick Keppel, Bishop of Exeter. ## Related artworks - [Laura Louisa Walpole]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of Maria Walpole]() - [Portrait of Martha Seymer as Modesty]() - [Portrait of Sir Robert Pigot]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()