Figure 11. Anne Arundell (?-1649), c. 1673?

Figure 11. Top. Anne Arundell (?-1649), wife of Cecil Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore. Courtesy Ann Arrundell County Historical Society.

Portrait:

The only known contemporary image of Anne Arundell

is a coin thought to have been struck before her death in 1649. That image is reproduced in A Relation of the Successfull beginnings of the Lord Baltemore's Plantation in Mary-Land (Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1990).

The image used here is from an old photograph that may have its origins in an original painting sent to the Anne Arundel Historical Society in 1886 by the then Lord Arundell of Wardour. (See MSA SC 21-33 for the letter of transmittal.) This portrayal bears a striking resemblance to any number of portraits of Henrietta maria, wife of King Charles I, after whom Maryland is said to have been named. A portrait of Anne Arundell probably was painted after her death and sent to her son Charles in Maryland in 1672. On August 2, 1673, Charles thanked his father for "my mothers picture which will be a great ornament to my parlor, and though the painter has not done it for her advantage as your lordship writes, yet those things are much esteemed here." (Fund-Publication, No. 28, The Calvert Papers, Number One, p. 285.). It is possible that the portrait reproduced here is the one sent to Charles, which he may have taken back with him when he returned to England.

I am indebted to Donna M. Ware for giving me access to her exhaustive research on the Anne Arundell portrait.

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