Painting and Sculpture

Anne Pitt as Hebe

Anne Pitt as Hebe is a 1792 portrait painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. It depicts the English noblewoman Anne Pitt, the daughter of Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford of Boconnoc in Cornwall. She was part of the extended Pitt dynasty, a dominant force in British politics in the eighteenth century. She married her cousin the politician William Grenville and as Baroness Grenville was his wife when he held office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as leader of the Ministry of All the Talents from 1806 to 1807. She was in Rome accompanying her father on a visit to Italy when she posed for Le Brun, the portrait taking seven sittings. She returned to England in June the same year and married Grenville in July. The portrait shows her in the role of Hebe, a figure from Greek mythology. Today the painting is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

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• ▸Edwin Austin Abbey
• ▸Armenian Church, Baku
• ▸Bernard van Orley

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