A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Killigrew, Anne
KILLIGREW, ANNE,
"A Grace for beauty, and a Muse for wit," as Wood says, was the daughter of Dr. Henry Killigrew, one of the prebendaries of Westminster, and born in London, a little before the restoration of Charles the Second. She showed indications of genius very early, which being carefully cultivated, she became eminent in the arts of poetry and painting. She painted a portrait of the Duke of York, afterwards James the Second, and also of the duchess, to whom she was maid of honour. She also painted some historical pictures and some pieces of still-life, for her own amusement. She was a woman of exemplary piety and virtue. Dryden speaks of her in the highest terms, and wrote long ode to her memory. She died of the small-pox, June, 1685, in her twenty-fifth year. She was buried in the Savoy Chapel.