Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson

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Anne Margaret Coke,
Viscountess Anson
Thomas Barber (1771-1843), Lady Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson, circa 1815, Shugborough Estate, National Trust.jpg
Thomas Barber (1771-1843), Lady Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson, circa 1815, Shugborough Estate, National Trust
Born
Anne Margaret Coke

(1779-01-25)25 January 1779[a]
Holkham Hall, Norfolk
Died23 May 1843(1843-05-23) (aged 64)
London
NationalityEnglish
OccupationPainter
Spouse(s)Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson
Parent(s)Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham

Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson (25 January 1779 – 23 May 1843),[a] was an English painter, the daughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham, and wife of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson.

Personal life[]

Anne Margaret Coke was born at Holkam Hall[1] on 25 January 1779[2]:65[3]:233[a] to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham, and Jane Dutton. Anne had an older sister, Jane, born in 1777, and a younger sister, Elizabeth born in 1795,[2]:65 one year after Anne was married. Jane was married by that time, too.[3]:411 Her mother was an abolitionist, spent her allowance on donations to the poor and theater tickets for her servants. Jane Dutton also believed in the importance of a good education for her children.[2]:65

At the age of 15, Anne Margaret Coke was married to 27-year-old Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, in September 1794. He was a member of parliament, worth £22,000 (equivalent to £2,546,145 in 2019) per year, and heir to Shugborough estate in Staffordshire.[2]:67 The Duke of Sussex said that he was a "true manly, noble, splendid fellow, possessing much of the real English character, sound sense, and although perhaps hurried away a little too much by country sports, has a great deal of good in him."[2]:67–68

According to Susanna Wade Martins, Anne was described as "thin, excitable, energetic, never quiet, constantly getting into quarrels, but always ready to help others.[2]:68 Dawson Turner described her as a woman of sweet character and a pleasing personality.[2]:68

Anson gave birth to eleven children, four by the time she was 20 years of age.[2]:68

She died 23 May 1843[5] in London.[1]

Further information: Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson

Artist[]

Susanna Wade Martins in Coke of Norfolk (1754–1842) states that Anne was likely taught to draw by Thomas Gainsborough in Norfolk and London. One of her paintings of a milk girl was made after one of Gainsborough's paintings. She was said to have made a painting of a nest of owls that was considered "very well done" by Benjamin Haydon.[2]:67 Mrs. Powys, who visited Shugborough in 1800, stated that competent works by Anson were in every room of the house, including three full-length paintings of her children. [2]:67

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Author Christopher Wright and the BBC Your Paintings site states that she was born in 1778.[1][4]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Christopher Wright (2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press. p. 80. ISBN 0-300-11730-2.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Susanna Wade Martins (1 February 2010). Coke of Norfolk (1754-1842): A Biography. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84383-531-8.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling (1908). Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke, First Earl of Leicester of Holkham, Containing an Account of His Ancestry, Surroundings, Public Services & Private Friendships & Including Many Unpublished Letters from Noted Men of His Day, English & American. John Lane. p. 411.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Painted by Anne Margaret Coke (Viscountess Anson)". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  5. ^ George Thomas Keppel Earl of Albemarle (1876). Fifty Years of My Life. H. Holt. p. 161.

External links[]

Media related to Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson at Wikimedia Commons

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