Anne Killigrew
(1660-1685), Poet and painterSitter associated with 7 portraits
Artist associated with 5 portraits
Killigrew was an amateur painter and poet who was well regarded in her lifetime, as the title of John Dryden's ode to her records: To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesie and Painting. Killigrew painted portraits, biblical, historical and mythological scenes, and landscapes, but only a handful of her pictures are known to have survived.
Unknown woman, possibly Anne Killigrew
after Unknown engraver, possibly after Sir Peter Lely
pen and ink, (circa 1660-1675)
NPG D3517
by Abraham Blooteling (Bloteling), after Anne Killigrew
mezzotint, 1680s
NPG D3421
by Isaac Beckett, published by John Smith, after Anne Killigrew
mezzotint, circa 1683-1688
NPG D30437
by Isaac Beckett, after Anne Killigrew
mezzotint, circa 1683-1688
NPG D3420
by Isaac Beckett, published by John Smith, after Anne Killigrew
mezzotint, published circa 1683-1729
NPG D11896
by Francis Engleheart, after Sir Peter Lely
stipple engraving, 1821
NPG D36863
by Isaac Beckett, after Anne Killigrew
mezzotint, circa 1683-1688
NPG D19754
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