Anne Mee

British artist (1765–1851) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anne Mee, née Foldsone (1765–1851)[1] was a prolific English miniature painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Born
Anne Foldsone

1765
Died28 May 1851(1851-05-28) (aged 85–86)
London, United Kingdom
KnownforMiniaturist
Spouse
Joseph Mee
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(m. 1793)​
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Anne Mee
Self-portrait (ca 1795)
Born
Anne Foldsone

1765
Died28 May 1851(1851-05-28) (aged 85–86)
London, United Kingdom
Known forMiniaturist
Spouse
Joseph Mee
​
(m. 1793)​
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Life

The eldest child of John Foldsone, she was educated at Madame Pomier's school in Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London. She began to paint at age 12, with tuition from George Romney, and after her father died in 1784, did so to support her family.[2][3]

Anne Mee exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy between 1815 and 1837. She died in Hammersmith on 28 May 1851.[2]

Family

Anne Foldsone married Joseph Mee, an Irish barrister from Armagh, in 1793; they had six children.[3] A son, Arthur Patrick Mee, practised as an architect, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1824 to 1837.[2]

Career

Susan, Lady Carbery (d. 1828), miniature by Anne Mee

As Miss Foldsone, she received royal and aristocratic patronage; and Horace Walpole, in his letters to Mary Berry of 1790–1, mentioned that she was at Windsor, painting the princesses. The Prince Regent gave Anne Mee employment in painting portraits of fashionable beauties, and many of these pictures went to Windsor. Some of her portraits were engraved for the Court Magazine, La Belle Assemblée, and similar periodicals. In 1812 she started a serial publication, Gallery of Beauties of the Court of George III, with her own portrait at the front, but just one number was issued.[2]

Selected work

Miniatures

  • Mrs. Mary Robinson (ca. 1790)[4]
  • Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Lady Sophia Boyle (ca. 1790)[5]
  • Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Barbara (1768–1829), Marchioness of Donegall (ca. 1790)[6]
  • Portrait of Lord Dugannon (ca. 1791–1899)[7]
  • Portrait Miniature of Frances, Countess of Dartmouth (ca. 1791–1899)[8]
  • Portrait Miniature of Princess Amelia (ca. 1791–1899)[9]
  • Anne Mee (ca. 1795)[10]
  • Elizabeth Boughton, Lady Templetown (1795–1800)[11]
  • George Stewart 8th Earl of Galloway (1795–1812)[12]
  • Lady Jane Halliday (1796)[13]
  • Lady Margaret Janet Fordyce (later Lady Margaret Burges) (18th century)[14]
  • Lady Hammond (late 18th - early 19th century)[15]
  • A Young Man, Thought to Be One of the Artist's Sons (late 18th - early 19th century)[16]
  • A Young Man, Thought to Be One of the Artist's Sons (late 18th - early 19th century)[17]
  • A Man, Thought to Be Joseph Mee (ca. 1800–1850)[18]
  • Lady Jersey (ca. 1800–1850)[19]
  • Lady Catherine Bligh, Lady Charles Stewart (ca. 1804–1865)[20]
  • An Unknown Lady in a White Dress (ca. 1805–1810)[21]
  • Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford (ca. 1812–1814)[22]
  • Anne Katherine MacDonnell, 2nd Countess of Antrim (ca. 1817–1818)[23]
  • Louisa Barbara Catherine Philips, Countess of Lichfield (1819)[24]
  • Miss Elliott (1825)[25]
  • Susan, Lady Carbery (1828)[26]
  • Lady Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard, Countess Gower, later Duchess of Sutherland (ca.1828)[27]
  • William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (19th century)[28]
  • Charlotte Townshend (before 1851)[29]
  • Anne 'Nanette' Hawkins, Lady Crewe (date unknown)[30]
  • Sir George Crewe, 8th Bt. as a Child (date unknown)[31]
  • Thomas William Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield, PC, MP (date unknown)[32]
  • Two Children Embracing (date unknown)[33]
  • Portrait of a Lady Wearing a Turban (date unknown)[34]
  • Lt. Col. Thomas Grosvenor (date unknown)[35]
  • Lady Anne Barnard (date unknown)[36]

Prints after Anne Mee

Publications of work

  • The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Females, Including Beauties of the Courts of George IV. and William IV. 2 vols. London: Edward Bull, 1833.[92][93]

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