The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope
in Jervas
's studio. Pope...
Friends, Associates
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
At this time LMWM
met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope
, Gay
, Charles Jervas
, and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti
.
Leisure and Society
Judith Cowper Madan
She had her portrait done in crayons by Charles Jervas
before she was married, and around the same date she sat for an oil painting, artist unknown, and another portrait by John Vanderbank
.
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
