. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. half-sister, Lady Mary Bruce, with the third Duke of Rich-mond, the nobleman already mentioned in connectionwith that sculpture gallery of which Wilton was, for atime, director. Indeed, during this period, Miss Conwayspent the usual life of a child whose friends and relativeswere highly placed, and at Coomb Bank, Latimer, anotherhouse rented by her parents, and at the beautiful ParkPlace, near Henley, which they eventually purchased,she passed her early years until the age
. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. half-sister, Lady Mary Bruce, with the third Duke of Rich-mond, the nobleman already mentioned in connectionwith that sculpture gallery of which Wilton was, for atime, director. Indeed, during this period, Miss Conwayspent the usual life of a child whose friends and relativeswere highly placed, and at Coomb Bank, Latimer, anotherhouse rented by her parents, and at the beautiful ParkPlace, near Henley, which they eventually purchased,she passed her early years until the age of seventeen,when a circumstance occurred which is regarded as havinggiven her that bias towards plastic art in which she wasto make something of a name. At this period the historian, David Hume, who hadpreviously been secretary to her uncle, Lord Hertford,took up a similar position under her father, then becomeGeneral Conway and a man of importance. Hume wasthus intimate with the Conway household, and sometimesvaried his secretarial duties by accompanying Anne inher walks. On one of these occasions they met a young. MRS. DAMER MRS. DAMER AND OTHERS 221 Italian, an itinerant vendor of plaster images, such as,at one time, were frequently to be seen in this boy endeavoured to dispose of some of his wares toHume, who, having conversed some time with him, gavehim a shilling and passed on. Anne was annoyed at hercompanion talking to a common boy, as she called him,and wasting time in looking at his productions, and toldthe historian so. Hume, therefore, pointed out thateven the modelling of such rough images was not un-attended by science and art, and concluded his paternalharangue by remarking that he doubted if, with all herattainments, she could do anything, in this direction,as clever. The girl said nothing, but the lesson was notthrown away upon her, and a few days later, having inthe meantime procured the necessary tools and material,she presented to her monitor a
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