Laura Louisa Walpole
by COTES, Francis, Oil on canvas, 76 x 34 cm
Laura Louisa Walpole (d. 1813) was one of the three illegitimate daughters of Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784) and niece of the author, Horace Walpole (1717-1797). She married the Hon. Frederick Keppel, Bishop of Exeter (1728-1777).
This painting is one of a pair, the other depicting her sister, Charlotte Walpole, wife of Lionel Tollemache, the 5th Earl of Dysart.