The Six Children of Charles John Herbert (d.1823) of Muckross Abbey, Killarney and Louisa Middleton...

Richard Rothwell (Athlone 1800 – Rome 1868). Oil painting on canvas, The Six Children of John Herbert (d.1823) of Muckross Abbey, Killarney (d.1823) and Louisa Middleton (d.1828), by Richard Rothwell (Athlone 1800 – Rome 1868). The children are Henry Arthur Herbert (1815-1866), standing half turned, Louisa Anne Herbert seated in pink dress, guitar on lap, Emily Herbert, in yellow dress with blue sash and Charles Herbert standing, leaning against a pillar; Jane Herbert, seated at her sisters knee, holding ribbon in her right hand. Six children, a girl with a violin in the centre; a youth with a gun at the right; and four other children grouped at the left are from left to right top row: Henry Arthur (1815-66) who married in 1837 the amateur artist Mary Balfour of Whittingshame [1817-93] and was Chief Secretary of Ireland between 1857-66), Louisa Anne Herbert (wife of the Reverend Edward Stewart), Emily Herbert (wife of Colonel Lang), Charles Herbert (reputedly killed by a cricket bat at Eton) and the bottom two: Maria Herbert (d.1872) and the posthumously-born Jane Herbert (d.1898) (wife of William Henry Hare Hedges-White, 3rd Earl of Bantry). Powis Castle and Garden, Powys