Photograph
Reproduction Portrait of Countess Temple
Details
- Date
- 1760
- Author / Artist
- Allan Ramsay
- Dimensions
- 140 x 100 cm
- Material
- Photographic reproduction
- Catalogue number
- HBT.26
- Current location
- Blue Room
A photographic copy of the portrait of Anna Chambers, Countess Temple 1709-1777. A wealthy heiress, Anna was in regular correspondance with Richard Grenville and the year before thier marriage in 1737 he wrote to her “If I have not dar’d to tell you how much I love you, all my actions must have…I have a Passion, that if I wou’d I coud not have conceal’d it…” Anna managed several houses and the building works at Stowe whilst her husband was attending Parliament, she was also an accomplished poet and became firm friends with Princess Amelia who visited Stowe on many occasions.
