Anne Killigrew, the artist who painted ‘Venus Attired by the Graces’ in the Falmouth Art Gallery collection, was a pioneering painter and poet of the Restoration Court. Killigrew was a great favourite of the future queen, Mary of Modena, who was a patron of her work and encouraged her talent. At a time when few women had access to education, Anne Killigrew began a promising career as one of the foremost artists of her generation.

In this talk, Dr Breeze Barrington will discuss the life and legacy, of this brilliant young woman who, though she died tragically young at just 25 during an outbreak of smallpox, achieved great things.