Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, British statesman and Prime Minister Size:L: 80 x 60cm Countess Maria Walewski

Countess Maria Walewski

The Royal Academy of Arts

Oxford rooftops

It was originally the property of gold mining pioneer

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, British statesman and Prime Minister Size:L: 80 x 60cm Countess Maria WalewskiArthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, British statesman and Prime Minister, c1905. A Conservative, Balfour (1848 1930) was Prime Minister from 1902 1905. He is best remembered as the author of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which supported the Zionist objective of a Jewish state in Palestine. Photo published in Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith, (London, c1905).