Jane Watts
| Jane Watts | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1793 |
| Died | 1826 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
Jane Watts or Jane Waldie (1793 – 1826) was an Scottish artist and author.[1]
Life
Waldie was born in 1793, she was the daughter of George and Ann (born Ormston) Waldie of Hendersyde Park, Roxburghshire. Her elder sister, Charlotte Eaton, was also a writer and artist.[2]
Watts painted local scenery and studied under Alexander Nasmyth. In September 1816, her brother John , her sister Charlotte and herself went abroad and returned the following August. In the October she married George Augustus Watts of Langton Grange near Staindrop.[2] Jane wrote a four volume account of her travels before her marriage titled Sketches descriptive of Italy in 1816–17; with a brief Account of Travels in various parts of France and Switzerland.[3]
The figures in some of her paintings were by Sir Robert Ker Porter, but she exhibited in her own name at Somerset House in 1819 a painting titled The Temple at Pæstum.[2]
She died in 5 July 1826 shortly after her child. The painter Robert Edmonstone was asked to create a portrait of her which he did based on miniatures made whilst she was alive. Thirty years later her husband took 28 pictures from Hendersyde Park where there was also a portrait of her made whilst she was in her twenties.[2]
References
- ↑ Jane Watts, ODNB, Retrieved 5 October 2016
- 1 2 3 4
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Waldie, Charlotte Ann". Dictionary of National Biography. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - ↑ Jane Watts, LordByron.org, Retrieved 5 October 2016