Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe, Countess Brownlow (1791-1872) (after James Rannie Swinton)
Richard James Lane (Hereford 1800 - Kensington 1872)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1846
Materials
Paper
Measurements
69 x 51 cm
Order this imageCollection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 353950
Summary
Print, lithograph, Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe, Countess Brownlow (1791-1872) (after James Rannie Swinton) by Richard James Lane (Hereford 1800 – Kensington 1872). Drawn on stone by R.J. Lane ARA, 1846.Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe, Countess Brownlow (1791-1872), eldest daughter of Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764-1839) and Lady Sophia Hobart (1768-1806), third daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793); married in 1828, as his third wife, John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow (1779-1853), but bore him no children.She has spent her youth trailing around Europe with her uncle Lord Castlereagh, on his official visits as Foreigh Secretary. She held the office of Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Adelaide between 1830 and 1849 and formed a close relationship with her. The widowed Adelaide came to stay at Belton and a bedchamber was redecorated for the occasion and duly renamed the Queen's Bedroom. Lady Emma wrote Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian which was published in 1868.
Makers and roles
Richard James Lane (Hereford 1800 - Kensington 1872), engraver (printmaker) after James Rannie Swinton (Kimmergehame 1816 - London 1888), artist