Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand was a French hostess and patron of the arts.
Madame du Deffand
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1756
Walpole by Rosalba Carriera, c. 1741.
Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham
Horace Walpole by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1755.