Lady Erskin

Lady Jane Erskine (1818–1846)

copy of a portrait (1837) by Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858) for the Beauty Gallery of Ludwig I of Bavaria

Lady Jane Erskine was married to James Henry Callander, Esquire of Craigforth (8 1837)
James Henry Callander (18 August 1803 – 31 January 1851), of Craigforth, Stirlingshire, was a Scottish politician.
Callander was the 5th Callander Laird of Craigforth, Stirlingshire, and 16th Laird of Ardkinglas, Argyllshire.
He sat as Member of Parliament for Argyllshire from 1832 to 1835.

Callander married firstly his cousin the Honourable Jane Plumer Erskine (1818–1846), daughter of David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine and Frances Cadwallader, on 29 August 1837.
They had three daughters:
Fanny Jane Callander.
Mary Hermione, who married 1stly Charles Sartoris; and secondly George Henry Dawkins, of Over Norton Park.
Janey Sevilla Callander, theatre producer. She married Lord Archibald Campbell, brother of John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, on 12 January 1869. Their son Niall became the 10th Duke.

waterbased painting on a sheet of ivory
frame chips of ivory, with inlay of nacre
no backside information
Condition painting: excellent
Condition frame: excellent
convex glass
suspension ring
dimension frame vertically: 104 mm
inner dimension frame: 46 mm





stock number 459