Volume 87 of the Walpole Society (Volume LXXXVII), which is currently in preparation, comprises a catalogue raisonné of works by the Irish-born portraitist Charles Jervas (1675–1739) compiled by Caroline Pegum of the Office of Public Works of Ireland. A successful portraitist, picture dealer, and polyglot, who spent several years in Italy and translated Cervantes’ Don Quixote from Spanish (the translation remains in print), Jervas’s talents were prodigious. During his lifet
