Charlotte Canning, Countess Canning was a British aristocrat, artist and the first Vicereine of India. She was one of India's most prolific women artists – two portfolios in the Victoria and Albert Mu
Lady Canning, by Franz Winterhalter (1849)
Charlotte Stuart with her mother and sister, by George Hayter in 1830
Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers by Jerry Barrett, 1859, with Lady Canning in attendance
Watercolour by Lady Canning, of the Hill Fort of Kangra, Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, 1860
Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning, also styled Viscount Canning and referred to as "Clemency Canning", was a British politician and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Charlotte Canning, Countess Canning
…two portfolios in the Victoria and Albert Museum contain some 350 watercolours by her, the result of four major tours in the country. Her husband was Charles Canning, who served as Governor-General of India from 1856 to 1858 and then as Viceroy of India until 1862. As the elder daughter of the British ambassador to…
Portrait by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, c. 1855
Daguerreotype, c. 1845
At Simla with his wife and Lord Clyde, Commander-in-Chief, 1860
India, 1860