Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville

[2] Anne Marguérite married Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville, on August 23, 1794, in Sancerre when she was twenty-three and Jean-Guiillaume was eighteen years old.

They spent their winters in New York City and established the École Économique, a school for French refugee children in 1808 and which was incorporated in 1810.

Not much is known about Anne Marguérite's early years, but like many young girls of her status, she most likely received lessons in draftsmanship.

[4] Based on the body of her artwork left behind, it appears she began drawing in earnest around the age of eighteen years.

The first was in 1984 curated by the Zimmerli Art Museum entitled, Baroness Hyde de Neuville: Sketches of America, 1807-1822.

In 2019 the New York Historical Society held another exhibition of her work entitled, Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neville.

Eleutherian Mills , c. 1817, Sepia ink on paper, Hagley Museum and Library
On the corner of F Street Washington next to our house autumn 1817, Watercolor on paper, New York Public Library