The Grandeur of a Georgian Master: The Life and Legacy of William Poole In the golden age of British portraiture, few names resonate with the same quiet dignity and aristocratic grace as William Poole. Known to history by his more formal title, William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, this master of the brush was far more than a mere chronicler of faces; he was an architect of identity during the Georgian era. Born in 1748 into a lineage that t…