[Portrait of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset] [art original]

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Title: [Portrait of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset] [art original]
Alternative Title: Lady Anne Clifford
Creator: Dixon, Nicholas, active 1660-1708, artist
Published / Created: [between 1660 and 1707]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A miniature of the Lady Anne Clifford. Formerly hung in the Tribune [Cabinet] at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title devised by curator.
Inscribed on verso by Horace Walpole: Lady Anne Clifford.
Signed by the artist with monogram in lower left.
Rectangular blackened pearwood frame.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A miniature of the Lady Anne Clifford, daughter and heiress to George Earl of Cumberland, first married to Richard Earl of Dorset, and afterwards to Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. She was governess to King Charles the First's children, and wrote the memoirs of her own life, a clever picture, by Dixon. Purchased from the collection of Lady Isabella Scott, daughter to the Duchess of Monmouth.
Provenance: Collection of Lady Isabella Scott bt Horace Walpole; 1842, May 10, Strawberry Hill Sale, Day 14, Lot 95 bt H. Rodd, £6.16.6; 1965, July 5, Christie's, Capt E.G. Spencer-Churchill Collection, lot 37 bt Thomas Agnew & Sons, for W.S. Lewis; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Extent: 1 painting : visible oval image 7.6 x 6 cm, framed to 13 x 12 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Portrait paintings
Watercolors (paintings)
Paintings (visual works)
Miniature
Material: watercolor ; and vellum watercolor.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Nicholas Dixon. Portrait of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.