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The 16th-century portrait, once attributed to Bronzino and owned by Horace Walpole, hadn't been seen for 200 years. Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a noblewoman (ca. 1580-90). Collection of Nick Cox ...

Designed and built by Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1776, the house reflects the writer and politician’s vision of a 'little Gothic castle' and spearheaded a whole architectural movement. Considered ...

Horror disappoints eventually. Just a few years before the publication of Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” (1764), the first proper horror novel, the philosopher Edmund Burke laid ...

Horace remained closely involved in politics following his brother’s death two years later and continued to improve the property, for example, commissioning a new stable clock turret from Ripley in ...

Is that the biggest loss in Millionaire history?” asked Clarkson. “Serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole of The Three Princes of Serendip,” revealed the host. Clarkson consoled Bennett by ...