KILLIGREW, Anne, "a Grace for beauty, and a Muse for wit," as Mr Wood says, was the daughter of Dr Henry Killigrew, brother of the two foregoing, and was born a little before the Restoration. She gave early indications of genius, and became eminent in the arts both of poetry and painting. She drew the duke of York and his duchess to whom she was maid of honour, as well as several other portraits and history pieces; and crowned all her other accomplishments with unblemished virtue and exemplary piety.
Mr Dryden seems quite lavish in her praise, though Killigrew, Wood assures us he has said no more of her than she was equal if not superior to. The amiable young woman died of the smallpox in 1685; and the year after her poems were published in a thin quarto volume.