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File:Henry Pelham.jpg

Henry_Pelham.jpg(297 × 400 pixels, file size: 36 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Artist John Shackleton († 1767)
Description
English: Portrait of Prime minister Henry Pelham (1694-1754)
Date before 1754
Medium oil
Unknown
Source/Photographer Unknown

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