Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Judy Dunlop and Dian Miller

Judy Dunlop and Dian Miller the Bighton Promettes

The figures are portraits of a Gascon knight and the author paying his respects to the knight who had sent for him to accompany him to England

'The Tiger Carries off Miao Shan'

'Hercules and The Hydra'

and Mr Bright dances lightly around

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Judy Dunlop and Dian MillerRichard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English poet and politician, c1890. Milnes (1809 1885) was a member of the literary set known as the Apostles Club. Elected a Conservative MP for Pontefract in 1837, he became a political associate of Palmerston, who raised him to the peerage in 1863. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait Gallery, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890.