Anne Margaret Coke was born at Holkam Hall on 25 January 1779 to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham and Jane Dutton. Her mother was an abolitionist, spent her allowance on donations to the poor and theater tickets for her servants.
Susanna Wade Martins in Coke of Norfolk (1754-1842) states that Anne was likely taught to draw by Thomas Gainsborough in Norfolk and London. One of her paintings of a milk girl was made after one of Gainsborough"s paintings. She was said to have made a painting of a nest of owls that was considered "very well done" by Benjamin Haydon.
Shugborough Hall, National Trust Collection
Animals Sheltering in a Storm, after Philip James de Loutherbourg
Thomas William Anson (1795–1854), Later 1st Earl of Lichfield, Anne Margaret Anson (1796–1882), Later Countess of Rosebery, and George Anson (1797–1857), Later Major General and Commander in Chief of India, as Children
Elijah and the Ravens, after Teniers.
