Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (14 April 1743 – buried 11 August 1779) was an English noblewoman and engraver. She was awarded prizes by the Royal Society of Arts.
Family Lady Louisa Greville was born in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire on 14 April 1743.Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. (21 June 2012). Oxford University Press USA. p. 493. . She was the eldest surviving child and daughter of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth Greville, Countess of Warwick. Her parents formally separated in 1765, following her mothers affair with General Robert Clerk."Separation Indenture". Warwickshire County Record Office, Greville of Warwick Castle. WCRO CR1886 432. 1760.
Greville's brothers were George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Charles Francis Greville and Robert Fulke Greville and she also had four sisters. Her maternal grandparents were Lord Archibald Hamilton and his second wife, Lady Jane Hamilton.
In 1770, Greville married William Churchill of Henbury, Dorset. They had one son, who died in infancy in 1779. Greville herself died in August 1779.Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999) Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th ed., 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage Genealogical Books Ltd.
Artist and engraver Greville was a talented etcher, a medium which was increasingly popular amongst women during the eighteenth century. Other members of Greville's family also practised in watercolours, pencil, pen and engraving, including her brothers and sisters. Most of her surviving artworks are engravings after examples by Annibale Carracci, Salvator Rosa, Marco Ricci and Guercino, among others.
Greville also produced prints of her father's home Warwick Castle, several examples of which survive in the Richard Bull Album kept at The British Museum. The Royal Society of Arts awarded her prizes for her engravings in 1758, 1759 and 1760. Her earliest dated print was made in 1757 and no dated works after her marriage in 1770 are known.
Notable collections Landscape with a horsedrawn sedan chair, 1759, Auckland Art Gallery
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