Frances Bunsen

Baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen (4 March 1791 – 23 April 1876) was a Welsh painter, author and diplomatic hostess, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, and the older sister of Lady Llanover. Early life Frances Waddington was born in 1791 at Dunston Park in Berkshire, one of the five daughters of landowner Benjamin Waddington (d.1828) and Georgina Mary Ann, (née Port) (1771–1850), the eldest daughter and co-heiress of her father. Her younger sister Augusta Waddington became Lady Llanover on marriage to Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover. Frances' mother Georgina was a great niece of Mary Delany, a bluestocking and botanical artist. Frances later lived at "Tŷ Uchaf", Llanover, Monmouthshire where she and her sister were educated by her mother. Frances was a talented watercolour painter. Several of her pictures are owned by Newport City Council. Marriage In 1816, the Waddington family spent the winter in Rome and Benjamin Waddington struck up a friendship with Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, a young Prussian diplomat who was involved in the cultural life of the city, and introduced him to his family.