Lady Emma Louise von Rothschild. Bust Portrait.

(ROTHSCHILD).

1934

Pencil on paper. Entitled “Emma” along the subject’s collar. Upper margin tipped to mat.

Lady Emma Louise Rothschild (1844-1935) was born in Frankfurt and married in 1867 her cousin Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Her sister, Laura Thérèse, married her brother-in-law, James Edouard de Rothschild. The former couple lived in Tring Park where Lady Emma Rothschild created a health-care system for the estate’s workers. Her eldest son Walter, became the second Lord Rothschild, and a renowned zoologist. The consignor, the great-great-grandson of Lady Emma Rothschild, relates that this portrait was drawn in the sitter’s 90th year.