DOI issue:
Nr. 160 (June 1910)
DOI article:Erskine, Steuart: The drawings of Lady Waterford
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0384
Lady IVaterford's Drawings
work out her fancies or
paint any friend who hap-
pened to be visiting her.
On March 29, 1859, came
the great crash of her life.
A few days before the 29th
Lord Waterford had been
out hunting and the hounds
had drawn a blank. Lord
Roberts, who was then a
little boy, was out for his
first day's hunting, and
Lord Waterford, seeing his
disappointment, said to him:
"Never mind, youngster;
we'll have better luck next
"hosh-a-bye fatherless." by louisa. marchioness of waterford time." But next time he
was destined to be thrown
So much has been written concerning Lady from his horse and killed on the spot.
Waterford's life that only the briefest notice is After this her life was spent at Ford, the old
necessary here. Born in Paris in the year 1818, in Border castle, which she had as a dower house, a
the room once occupied by the beautiful Pauline
Borghese, Louisa Stuart was the younger daughter
of Sir Charles Stuart, afterwards Lord Stuart de
Rothesay, at that time British Ambassador to the
Court of France. Much of her childhood was
passed in Paris, but it was in Rome, which she
visited with her parents after the marriage of her
sister Charlotte to Mr. Canning in 1835, that she
received her strongest inspiration. Here she
accepted an ideal in art to which she remained
faithful all her life.
In 1839 she met her fate at the Eglinton
Tournament in the shape of the young Lord
Waterford. He was a shy, strange creature who
hated society and lived for sport, and the match
was not at first approved of by her parents, although
they afterwards withdrew their opposition. The
marriage took place in 1S42, and for the next
seventeen years of her life Lady Waterford lived
chiefly at Curraghmore, her husband's place in
Ireland. Here she devoted herself to the poor,
visited them in their cabins, encouraged a woollen
industry, attended mothers' meetings, and sketched
all the school children.
Lord Waterford was devoted to his wife, but he
left her a great deal alone; in the hunting season
he would often not return till ten o'clock, when he
would go to bed for a couple of hours, after which
he would get up and dine at midnight. These
eccentric habits do not seem to have interfered
with his wife's happiness. After a long day spent
in painting or in visiting the sick, she would esta-
blish herself by the fire with her sketch book]and by louisa, marchioness of waterford
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1 child with dogs
work out her fancies or
paint any friend who hap-
pened to be visiting her.
On March 29, 1859, came
the great crash of her life.
A few days before the 29th
Lord Waterford had been
out hunting and the hounds
had drawn a blank. Lord
Roberts, who was then a
little boy, was out for his
first day's hunting, and
Lord Waterford, seeing his
disappointment, said to him:
"Never mind, youngster;
we'll have better luck next
"hosh-a-bye fatherless." by louisa. marchioness of waterford time." But next time he
was destined to be thrown
So much has been written concerning Lady from his horse and killed on the spot.
Waterford's life that only the briefest notice is After this her life was spent at Ford, the old
necessary here. Born in Paris in the year 1818, in Border castle, which she had as a dower house, a
the room once occupied by the beautiful Pauline
Borghese, Louisa Stuart was the younger daughter
of Sir Charles Stuart, afterwards Lord Stuart de
Rothesay, at that time British Ambassador to the
Court of France. Much of her childhood was
passed in Paris, but it was in Rome, which she
visited with her parents after the marriage of her
sister Charlotte to Mr. Canning in 1835, that she
received her strongest inspiration. Here she
accepted an ideal in art to which she remained
faithful all her life.
In 1839 she met her fate at the Eglinton
Tournament in the shape of the young Lord
Waterford. He was a shy, strange creature who
hated society and lived for sport, and the match
was not at first approved of by her parents, although
they afterwards withdrew their opposition. The
marriage took place in 1S42, and for the next
seventeen years of her life Lady Waterford lived
chiefly at Curraghmore, her husband's place in
Ireland. Here she devoted herself to the poor,
visited them in their cabins, encouraged a woollen
industry, attended mothers' meetings, and sketched
all the school children.
Lord Waterford was devoted to his wife, but he
left her a great deal alone; in the hunting season
he would often not return till ten o'clock, when he
would go to bed for a couple of hours, after which
he would get up and dine at midnight. These
eccentric habits do not seem to have interfered
with his wife's happiness. After a long day spent
in painting or in visiting the sick, she would esta-
blish herself by the fire with her sketch book]and by louisa, marchioness of waterford
285
1 child with dogs