Louisa Tenison

Lady Louisa Tenison (c. 1820 - 27 Aug 1882) was an English artist, traveler and author. Biography Lady Louisa Mary Anne Anson (later Tenison) was the daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield and his wife Louisa Catherine Philips, the eldest of their 8 children. She married Lt. Col Edward King-Tenison on 26 Nov 1838. They had two daughters, Louisa Frances Mary and Florence Margaret Christina. Her husband was an MP and in the 1840s became intensely interested in the emerging practice of photography. She and her husband traveled through Egypt, Palestine and Syria in 1843, which led her to create a series of drawings of sites such as Karnak, Petra and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, later published in her book Sketches in the East. Several years later, she documented their tour of Spain in her work Castile and Andalucia, which she wrote and also co-illustrated along with painter Egron Lundgren. She also assisted James Uwins (nephew of Thomas Uwins RA) with his drawings of the city of Granada, which were the source for paintings by Robert Burford exhibited at the Leicester Square Panorama in 1853.