Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Bt (1669-1749)

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Bt (1669-1749), British (English) School, circa 1708/09 - 1711. A three-quarter-length portrait of a middle -aged man, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, seated, long light-brown wig with centre parting, wearing a blue coat with a red cloak over his knees; a classical house, possibly Esholt House, seen in the background through a window. Esholt (now swallowed up by Bradford, West Riding) was believed to be by Joseph Pape of Farnley for Sir Walter Calverley, 1706-1709. Its "S. front is of 7 bays and 2 storeys, with a 3-bay pediment, quoins, restrainedly framed windows. Doorway with frieze rising a little in the middle. Segmental pediment on corbels" [not stated to be broken] (Pevsner). The pedimented central bays of this classical house (Esholt) look curiously like the south front of Wallington before its remodelling by Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, circa 1739. Wallington, Northumberland (Accredited Museum)