Anne Gliddon

Anne Gliddon (1807–1878) was a British artist and illustrator. She worked with graphite, ink, and watercolor, creating portraits and landscapes of British churches, almshouses, and distinctive houses as well as landscapes of South Australia. Her portraits have been published in books about Leigh Hunt and Thornton Leigh Hunt, her brother-in-law. Gliddon illustrated Types of Mankind, a book that her husband George Gliddon and Josiah C. Nott published. She wrote a family records of her relatives which was incorporated in The Gliddons of London: 1760–1850". Early life and education Anne Gliddon was born in 1807, the daughter of John Gliddon of Holly Terrace, Highgate, London. John (1785–1826) and his wife Sarah (1780–1826) had six children, Anne, John, Jane Sarah, Katherine, Mary, and Arthur William. Anne, whose nickname was Nanny, was the sister of Katherine (Kate) Gliddon, the wife of Thornton Leigh Hunt. Gliddon studied art under Thomas Charles Wageman. Career Anne was an artist and illustrator. Gliddon made a portrait of Leigh Hunt in 1841, a circulor pencil drawing enhanced with white. A drawing of Leigh Hunt was published in the book Leigh Hunt on the Eight Sonnets of Dante. Her portrait of George Henry Lewes, in graphite and watercolor is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The image was published in two books about Lewes, a book about both Lewes and George Eliot in the 1830s, and a literary book, J. L. May, George Eliot (1830) A. T. Kitchel, George Lews and George Eliot (1830) B. C. Williams, George Eliot (1836) Harold Orel, Victorian literary critics (1984), in the book and on the jacket of the book