Anne Damer

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Standard Name: Damer, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Seymour Conway
Married Name: Anne Damer
AD , who won high critical praise as a sculptor, also wrote poetry and kept journals. She left one definitely and one possibly identified novels, and a series of linked fictional pieces, all published in the early nineteenth century.
Marble statue of Anne Damer as the Muse of Sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1778. She stands on a square plinth engraved with her name ("The Honourable Anne Seymour Damer") wearing classical Greek garb, with a flower wreath on her tightly-curled hair and a girdle below her breasts. She holds a statuette of a river god, with urn. British Museum.

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Wealth and Poverty Horace Walpole
His will left Strawberry Hill to the sculptor and writer Anne Damer (a close family friend who had been the butt of satirical attack, with slurs on her sexuality), together with an annual income of...

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