Anna Maria Garthwaite
✓ Source-basedrisingBritish artist (1688-1763)
United KingdomLived 1688 to 1763 · aged 75Anna Maria Garthwaite was an English textile designer known for creating vivid floral designs for silk fabrics hand-woven in Spitalfields, London, in the mid-18th century. Garthwaite was acknowledged as one of the premiere English designers of her day.
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![Mrs. Charles Willing of Philadelphia was painted by Robert Feke in 1746 wearing a gown of English silk damask woven to a surviving 1743 design by Anna Maria Garthwaite.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Mrs_Charles_Willing_by_Robert_Feke_1746.jpg/500px-Mrs_Charles_Willing_by_Robert_Feke_1746.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Mrs. Charles Willing of Philadelphia was painted by Robert Feke in 1746 wearing a gown of English silk damask woven to a surviving 1743 design by Anna Maria Garthwaite.[1]
Meandering floral vines design attributed to Garthwaite, ca 1740.
Detail of a brocaded design of peonies, lilies, and roses, 1744.
2 Princelet Street Spitalfields London E1, with plaque
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Anna Maria Garthwaite was an English textile designer known for creating vivid floral designs for silk fabrics hand-woven in Spitalfields, London, in the mid-18th century. Garthwaite was acknowledged as one of the premiere English designers of her day. Many of her original designs in watercolours have survived, and silks based on these designs have been identified in portraiture and in costume collections in England and abroad.
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