Anne Seymour Damer
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Anne Seymour Damer was an English sculptor. Described as a "female genius" by Horace Walpole, she was trained in sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi and John Bacon. Influenced by the Enlightenment, Damer w
Anne Seymour Damer's self-portrait bust at the Vasari Corridor of the Uffizi gallery The Greek inscription reads: ΑΝΝΑ ΣΕΙΜΟΡΙΣ ΔΑΜΕΡ Η ΕΚ ΤΗΣ ΒΡΕΤΤΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΥΤΗ ΑΥΤΗΝ ΕΠΟΙΕΙ ("Anne Seymour Damer from Britain, made herself")
Anne Damer with the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Melbourne in Witches Round the Cauldron by Daniel Gardner (1775)
Sir Joseph Banks by Anne Seymour Damer
Engraving of Coriolanus (c. 1789), one of two bas-reliefs created by Damer for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
Henry Seymour Conway
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Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway was a British Army officer and politician. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Au
Anne Seymour Damer
…the actress Elizabeth Farren. Anne Seymour Conway was born in Sevenoaks into an aristocratic Whig family. She was the only daughter of Field-Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721–1795) and his wife Lady Caroline Bruce, born Campbell, Lady Ailesbury (1721–1803). Her father was a nephew of Robert Walpole, Britain's first…
Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway by Thomas Gainsborough, 1780
Waldeck Castle, captured by Conway in 1762 during the Seven Years' War