Pauline Trevelyan. Pauline, Lady Trevelyan was an English painter, noted for single-handedly making Wallington Hall in Northumberland a centre of High Victorian cultural life, and for enchanting by her intellect and art John Ruskin, Swinburne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Thomas Carlyle, John Everett Millais, and other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
She was married in May 1835 to Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet. Paulina Jermyn was the eldest child of George Bitton Jermyn, of Hawkedon Parsonage, who, to ensure the Jermyn surname survived, added it as her second Christian name.
Her mother was of Huguenot descendancy. The marriage between artist Pauline Jermyn, the penniless daughter of a clergyman and the rich, teetotal, vegetarian Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan was an unlikely, but not surprisingly successful arrangement, their common interest in geology and art ensured their compatibility and the childless marriage allowed them to channel their creativity to other ends.
William Bell Scott said of her, a true woman, but without vanity, and very likely without the passion of love. Shortly before proposing to Pauline, Walter had made his future wife a gift of a box of fossils.
Walter had been described as an intellectual of a dry professional order. He was the owner of Wallington estate from
She was married in May 1835 to Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet. Paulina Jermyn was the eldest child of George Bitton Jermyn, of Hawkedon Parsonage, who, to ensure the Jermyn surname survived, added it as her second Christian name.
Her mother was of Huguenot descendancy. The marriage between artist Pauline Jermyn, the penniless daughter of a clergyman and the rich, teetotal, vegetarian Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan was an unlikely, but not surprisingly successful arrangement, their common interest in geology and art ensured their compatibility and the childless marriage allowed them to channel their creativity to other ends.
William Bell Scott said of her, a true woman, but without vanity, and very likely without the passion of love. Shortly before proposing to Pauline, Walter had made his future wife a gift of a box of fossils.
Walter had been described as an intellectual of a dry professional order. He was the owner of Wallington estate from
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