Lady Louisa Tenison

Lady Louisa Mary Anne King-Tenison (née Anson; 6 December 1819 – 27 August 1882)[1] was an English artist, traveler and author.

[3] 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.

[4] 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.

[7] She took an active role in the building works, notably dismissing the builder Sir Thomas Newenham Deane after a disagreement over cost overruns.

[12] One of her watercolour paintings featured in Sketches in the East, depicting the House of the British consul in Damascus, resides in the UK government art collection.