A miniature of the Lady Anne Clifford. Formerly hung in the Tribune [Cabinet] at Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Lady Anne Clifford
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., and 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.
Title from curator., Inscribed on verso with notes in Horace Walpole's hand: This portrait of Miss Mary Latham of [illegible] in Kent was drawn about the year 1750 by the celebrated James Ferguson of whom[?] see an account in the 3 vol. of Lysons's invitational of London., Oval blackened pearwood frame, cracked., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: [None?].
