Artist:
Title:	Mary Berry, ca. 1788
Description:	Watercolor over pencil

Soon after meeting the Berry sisters in October 1788, Walpole wrote to his friend Lady Ossory, "They are of pleasing figures; Mary, the eldest (1763-1852), sweet, with fine dark eyes, that are very lively when she speaks . . . Agnes, the younger (1764-1852), has an agreeable sensible countenance, hardly to be called handsome, but almost." In spite of their youth, the Berrys soon joined Walpole's circle: "They are exceedingly sensible, entirely natural and unaffected, frank and being qualified to talk on any subject, nothing is so easy and agreeable as their conversation."