Anne Seymour Damer

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: n.d.
Accession number: 27.147
Maker: Richard Cosway(Opens in new tab) (British, 1742–1821)
Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 3 in. (12.1 x 7.6 cm.)
Medium: pencil, wash, and gouache on paper
Description: Portrait drawing in metal frame
Credit: The Huntington
Department: European Art
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Richard Cosway was one of the foremost miniaturists of the eighteenth century who also produced both miniatures and portrait drawings. The beautiful miniature of the Countess of Clarendon is typical of Cosway's delicate style, which set the standard which many miniaturists were to follow. Cosway's small-scale pencil or watercolor portraits were sometimes engraved and sold as prints, again demonstrating the fluid boundaries between the three media on display here. This drawing is of the fashionable sculptress, Anne Seymour Damer, a close friend of Cosway and cousin of Horace Walpole. Damer, in fact, inherited Strawberry Hill upon Walpole's death, including his famed collection of portrait miniatures. Cosway himself was also a collector, and he and his wife gave lavish entertainments at their London home filled with Old Masters and his own paintings. In one room, Cosway kept portfolios of prints and drawings, including one of his portrait drawings and prints after his portraits.

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