Sir Robert Walpole addressing the Cabinet

by Joseph Goupy
1723-1742

British Museum 1920,0214.4

Formerly attributed to Philippe Mercier 
Formerly attributed to William Hogarth 

British Museum curator's comment:

It has been suggested the the scene is a meeting of a Regency Council and that the figures include Thomas Pelham-Hollis, Duke of Newcastle.

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