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Title: Anne Seymour Damer. A woman of art and fashion, 1748-1828
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Noble, Percy
Subjects: Damer, Anne Seymour Conway, Mrs., 1749-1828
Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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Sir Waltham Wallershouse at Twickenham, to see his wonderfulcollection of old French furniture, which theyconsidered finer than anything they had everseen in France. During the summer of 1825 Mary Berry wasstaying with Mrs. Darner at York House, whereshe had now gathered together a large collectionof her own busts and models in terra-cotta, and agreat deal of her mothers beautiful embroidery. Early in the year 1828 Mrs. Darners belovedfriends, the Misses Berry, left England foranother trip on the Continent, accompanied byLady Charlotte Lindsay ; they never saw theirold friend again. Ill-health, together with theinfirmities and weakness of old age, had now setin, with an almost imperceptible decay, but evenin this weakened state her patience and persever-ance enabled her to finish the bust of Nelson forthe Duke of Clarence, a few days before herdeath.1 1 A day or two after her death this bust was presented to the Dukeat Bushey by Sir Alexander and Lady Johnston, in the presence of 220
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THE LAST YEARS OF HER LIFE She passed away in enviable tranquillity at herhouse in Upper Brook Street on May 28, 1828,in her eightieth year, her near relations, George,fifth Duke of Argyll, and Sir Alexander Johnston,being with her to the last. It was not till June that the Berrys receivedthe affecting news of the loss they had sustained,a loss which they felt most bitterly, their griefbeing intensified by the thought that they hadnot been with her at the last. Mrs. Darner wasmany years senior to her friends, who lived on tothe advanced ages, respectively, of eighty-nineand ninety. Mrs. Darner was buried at Sundridge Church,near the grave of her mother. In her will shedesired that her working apron, with all her toolsand the ashes of her favourite dog Fidele,which had died many years before, should beplaced in her coffin. She bequeathed YorkHouse to her cousin Lady Johnston,1 for the pur-pose of keeping under one roof the whole of hercollection of the bronze and marble busts of herfri

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