BBBD
was a friend, from her youth onwards, of William Gilpin
and his brother Sawrey Gilpin
, a painter of animals; they each assumed a paternal relationship with her. Ugo Foscolo
was another significant literary...
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Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
Barbarina Wilmot (later BBBD
) composed her Sonnet On Seeing the Bust of the Late Sawrey Gilpin (an animal painter who had died two months before this, whom she loved and admired).
Dacre, Barbarina Brand, Baroness. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. John Murray, 1821, 2 vols.
2: 251
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
