Frances Bunsen
Baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen (4 March 1791 – 23 April 1876) was a Welsh painter and author, the wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, and the older sister of Lady Llanover.
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She was born in 1791 at Dunston Park in Bedfordshire, one of the five daughters of landowner Benjamin Waddington, and later lived at "Tŷ Uchaf", Llanover, Monmouthshire. Her mother was a great niece of Mary Delany. Frances was a talented watercolour painter. Several of her pictures are owned by Newport City Council. On 1 July 1817 she married Baron Bunsen, who later became the German ambassador to Britain. After his death in 1860, she published a memoir of his life: A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, Drawn Chiefly from Family Papers, by His Widow, Frances, Baroness Bunsen (1868). She died at Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in 1876.
Works
Paintings
- Swansea (1808)
- Hills beyond Crickhowell (1808)
- Monmouth (1810)
- Basaleg Church (1813)
- Tredegar Park (1813)
- Abergavenny Church (1838)
- Abercarn (1847)
Writings
- Memoir of Baron Bunsen (1868)
- Hare, Life and Letters of Frances, Baroness Bunsen (London, 1882)
External links
- Ask Cymru
- Watercolours by Frances Bunsen held on Gathering the Jewels
- Free scores by Frances Bunsen at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- New International Encyclopedia. 1905. .
- Richmond, J. M. (2015). Nine Letters from an Artist: The Families of William Gillard, Porphyrogenitus, ISBN 978-1-871328-19-6