page_title: Frances Bunsen
hierarchical_section_title: Frances Bunsen
caption_attribution_description: English: The British artist and author Frances Bunsen, 1791-1876 was the wife of Carl von Bunsen, long serving Prussian Ambassador to Britain in the mid-19th Century. She was also the sister of Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover, a prominent patron of Welsh culture. This 1874 portrait by C.H. Jeens is from the fly cover of volume 2 of the 3rd edition (1882) of her biography by Augustus J. C. Hare.
context_page_description: Baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen was a Welsh painter and author, the wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, and the older sister of Lady Llanover.
  She was born in 1791 at Dunston Park in Bedfordshire, one of the five daughters of landowner Benjamin Waddington, and later lived at "Tŷ Uchaf", Llanover, Monmouthshire. Her mother was a great niece of Mary Delany. Frances was a talented watercolour painter. Several of her pictures are owned by Newport City Council. On 1 July 1817 she married Baron Bunsen, who later became the German ambassador to Britain. After his death in 1860, she published a memoir of his life: A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, Drawn Chiefly from Family Papers, by His Widow, Frances, Baroness Bunsen. She died at Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in 1876.
context_section_description: Baroness Frances Waddington Bunsen (4 March 1791 – 23 April 1876) was a Welsh painter and author, the wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, and the older sister of Lady Llanover.
  She was born in 1791 at Dunston Park in Bedfordshire, one of the five daughters of landowner Benjamin Waddington, and later lived at "Tŷ Uchaf", Llanover, Monmouthshire. Her mother was a great niece of Mary Delany. Frances was a talented watercolour painter. Several of her pictures are owned by Newport City Council. On 1 July 1817 she married Baron Bunsen, who later became the German ambassador to Britain. After his death in 1860, she published a memoir of his life: A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, Drawn Chiefly from Family Papers, by His Widow, Frances, Baroness Bunsen (1868). She died at Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in 1876.
caption: Frances Bunsen, 1874
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