Anne Killigrew

Abraham Blooteling : Mezzotint after a self-portrait

Venus and the three graces

Anne Killigrew (* early 1660 in London , † June 16, 1685 in London) was an English poet and painter.

Life

Anne Killigrew was a daughter of chaplain Henry Killigrew (1613-1700) and Judith Killigrew, who died in 1683. Theater manager Thomas Killigrew was an uncle. The family worked for the court of Charles II of England . Anne Killigrew was hired in 1683 as one of six Maids of Honor at the almost same age Mary of Modena, Duchess of York . Killigrew made a portrait of her that has not yet been found. She painted and drew other portraits; but so far only four paintings have been identified.

Anne Killigrew died of smallpox in 1685 . Her tomb in the Savoy Chapel was destroyed in a fire in 1864.

Her father printed a volume of her previously unpublished poems in 1685; the book was published in 1686 and also contained a self-portrait and three dedicatory poems, including John Dryden's Elegy To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew . Dryden gives information about her poetic work and her painting.

literature

• David Hopkins: Killigrew, Anne In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
• H. Stuchtey: Killigrew, Anne . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 253.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anne Killigrew in the WorldCat bibliographic database