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Jane Plumer Callander (née Erskine) (9 May 1818, London - 30 March 1846, Scotland) was a British noblewoman whose portrait was included in the famous Gallery of Beauties of the Bavarian King Ludwig I.[1] She was the daughter of David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine, British ambassador to Munich.
Life
[edit]She was born in London in 1818. She was one of the seven daughters of David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine and Frances Cadwalader, all famous for their beauty. The baron was the British ambassador in Munich.[2] Her maternal grandparents were John Cadwalader, an American general during the Revolutionary War, and his second wife, Williamina Bond (daughter of Phineas Bond, of Philadelphia and niece of Thomas Bond).[3]
Portrait
[edit]She was introduced to King Ludwig by his wife Queen Therese of Bavaria who thought she was a suitable subject for the beauty gallery. The Queen was the one who persuaded Lady Jane to pose for the gallery.[4]
In the portrait, Erskine wears an exaggerated side curl coiffure with a braided rope of hair running around the back of her head.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Erskine married her first cousin, James Henry Callander, Esquire of Craigforth, in 1837. She moved to Scotland with him. They had three daughters[6]:
- Fanny Jane Callander.
- Mary Hermione Callander, who married Charles Sartoris; and secondly George Henry Dawkins, of Over Norton Park.
- Janey Sevilla Callander, a theatre producer who married Lord Archibald Campbell, brother of John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, on 12 January 1869. Their son Niall became the 10th Duke.[7]
Erskine died in 1846 in Scotland.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ S. K. Ludovic, "A King's Gallery of Beauty" Strand Magazine (January 1902): 16-23.
- ^ "ERSKINE, Hon. David Montagu (1776-1855), of Butler's Green, Suss". History of Parliament.
- ^ Browning, Charles Henry (1891). Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings. Porter & Costes. pp. 138, 419. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
- ^ Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/1way/713081862
- ^ Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com › pin 1837 Lady Jane Erskine by Joseph Karl Stieler (Schönheitengallerie ..., http://www.gogmsite.net/empire-napoleonic-and-roman/subalbum-schonheitengalleri/1837-lady-jane-erskine-by-j.html#previous-photo
- ^ Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte https://hdbg.eu › objekte › index Königreich - Lady Jane Erskine (1837), https://hdbg.eu/koenigreich/index.php/objekte/index/id/880
- ^ galerieterson.com http://www.galerieterson.com › cgg Collection G G, http://www.galerieterson.com/cgg/407
- ^ Flickr https://www.flickr.com › photos Lady Jane Erskine (9 May 1818 - 30 March 1846), https://www.flickr.com/photos/1way/713081862