Jane Watts

Jane Watts born Jane Waldie (1793–1826) was a British artist and author born to a Scottish and Northumbrian family.

Life Jane Waldie was born in 1793, the daughter of George and Ann (born Ormston) Waldie, variously of Hendersyde Park, Roxburghshire; Kingswood, Northumberland; and Forth House, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Her accomplishments - which appear to have been "astonishing skill in painting" an 1895 three volume set of biographies of local worthies in which she is one of only two women featured; and an extended entry in The Annual Biography and Obituary for 1827. The Dictionary of National Biography asserts that the figures in three or four of her paintings were by Sir Robert Ker Porter, but she exhibited in her own name at Somerset House in 1819 a painting titled The Temple at Pæstum.

Works

Narrative of a residence in Belgium during the campaign of 1815; and a visit to the field of Waterloo (1817) Sketches descriptive of Italy in 1816–17; with a brief Account of Travels in various parts of France and Switzerland (1820) four volumes via HathiTrust Volume I Volume II Volume III Volume IV