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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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UR DAMER several days, and attracted all the collectors anddealers in the country, but the sums realisedfor many of the objects so highly prized by LordOrford, when offered for sale, would raise a smileto the lips of the modern purchaser. How little did Horace Walpole think that thecollection, which he had cherished and arrangedwith so much taste, would have been thusscattered! In 1761, many years before hisdeath, he wrote to his friend George Montagu,from Houghton, his fathers place, from whencethe magnificent collection of portraits had justbeen sold to the Empress Catherine of Russia:* Poor little Strawberry : at least it will not bestripped to pieces by a descendant/ The Strawberry Hill collection included manyrare specimens of portrait figures in Chelseaporcelain, which were made about 1750, someof which were portraits of Lord Orfords friends,such as George II., Kitty Clive the actress, andField-Marshal Conway, his cousin (this lastspecimen is in the South Kensington Museum). 204
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YOEK HOUSE CHAPTEE XX YORK HOUSE After giving up Strawberry Hill, Mrs. Darner,who must have missed her garden and hercountry pursuits, lived almost entirely at herhouse in Upper Brook Street, where she followedher occupation of sculpture. She never seems to have visited her old homeat Park Place after her fathers death in 1795,but her friend Miss Berry went there in June1811, and wrote to Mrs. Darner an account ofthe visit, when staying with Mrs. Scott at Danes-field, near Mariow. Danesfield, June 30, 1811.—I was at ParkPlace1 yesterday. It had rained much in thenight, and was a grey, damp, melancholy day,suiting well with the feelings I carried to it.Never did I see a place which, without beingmuch altered, is so perfectly changed, so triste,so comfortless! Everything is neglected: the 1 Park Place was at this time the property of Lord Malmesbury. 205 ANNE SEYMOUR DAMER seats all falling to pieces, the trees overgrown insome places, and in others dead and left standing,the poor lit

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