A Canaletto painting from the "high point" of his career is on the block at Christie's Old Masters in July and is estimated ...

Christie’s is to sell a view of Venice by Canaletto which was once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, in its Old Masters evening sale on 1 July. It is estimated to make ...

He hated the name, changing it to Strawberry Hill House and created “the prettiest bauble you ever saw”. His little Gothic castle is a fantasy of pinnacles, towers and battlements — gleaming white, it ...

From the Country Life Archive: Sir Robert Walpole was a distinguished politician and a keen architectural patron, but when he was in the country he hunted six days a week. The stables he built at ...

Lord Cholmondeley, owner of Houghton Hall, said: “The title of Stephen Cox’s exhibition at Houghton seems particularly ...

Take a political journey through nearly 300 years of high ideals and low cunning, from Gordon Brown to the first man to hold prime ministerial powers, Robert Walpole. Britain's first female prime ...

Considered to be the UK’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole not only had the distinction of holding office the longest, but was also first to resign. After being appointed Lord of the ...

Catherine, Lady Walpole, wife of Sir Robert Walpole, Viscount Walpole and Baron Houghton, has a white marble memorial in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. The square plinth ...

One of Canaletto’s ‘prime-period’ views of Venice which once hung in 10 Downing Street has emerged at Christie’s.