Lady Anne Clifford

Lady Anne Clifford
Lady Anne Clifford, portrait by William Larkin, National Portrait Gallery, London[1]
14th Baroness de Clifford
Reign1605–1676
PredecessorGeorge Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
SuccessorNicholas Tufton, 3rd Earl of Thanet
Born30 January 1590
Skipton Castle, England
Died22 March 1676(1676-03-22) (aged 86)
BuriedSt Lawrence's Church, Appleby
Noble familyClifford
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1609; died 1624)​
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(m. 1630; died 1650)​
Issue
  • Margaret Tufton, Countess of Thanet
  • Isabella Compton, Countess of Northampton
FatherGeorge Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
MotherLady Margaret Russell
The Great Picture, a huge triptych measuring 8ft 5" high and 16ft 2" wide, commissioned in 1646 by Anne Clifford, attributed to Jan van Belcamp (1610–1653), formerly hanging in Appleby Castle and now displayed in the Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, Cumbria. It depicts Anne as a girl at left and as a mature woman at right. The central panel shows her parents and young brothers. The painting is replete with significant elements referring to her life and to her succession to her paternal inheritance, gained after a lengthy legal dispute.[2]

Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, suo jure 14th Baroness de Clifford (30 January 1590 – 22 March 1676)[3] was an English peeress. In 1605 she inherited her father's ancient barony by writ and became suo jure 14th Baroness de Clifford. She was a patron of literature and as evidenced by her diary and many letters was a literary personage in her own right. She held the hereditary office of High Sheriff of Westmorland which role she exercised from 1653 to 1676.[4]

  1. ^ Profile, theguardian.com, 3 October 2013; Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Abbot Hall".
  3. ^ Clifford, D.H, ed. (1990). The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford. Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publishing.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference dnb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).