Waterford, Louisa, Marchioness of (1818 – 1891) – The Avenging Angel.

Louisa Waterford was one of those extraordinary female Victorian aristocrats who managed to combine piety, intellectualism, artistic pursuits and philanthropy. She was an intimate of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and trained under Rossetti and Ruskin. Her watercolours invariably depict Christian scenes or imagery, this sheet being unusually strong and befitting the subject. Her great artistic achievement was the large scale religious paintings she made between 1860 and 1880 to decorate the school she built on her estate in Northumberland.