The Hon. Jane Plumer Erskine was born on 9 May 1818 in London. She was the sixth daughter of British ambassador to Munich and diplomat David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine, and his wife Frances Cadwalader (a daughter of General John Cadwalader).
Jane was introduced to King Ludwig I of Bavaria by his wife Queen Therese of Bavaria who thought she was a suitable subject for the beauty gallery. Queen Therese was the one who persuaded Jane to pose for the gallery.[4]
In the portrait, Jane wears an exaggerated side curl coiffure with a braided rope of hair running around the back of her head.[5]
Personal life
Jane married to her cousin James Henry Callander, Esquire of Craig Forth (1818–1846) and moved to Scotland. They had three daughters:[6]
Fanny Jane Callander.
Mary Hermione Callander, who married Charles Sartoris; and secondly George Henry Dawkins, of Over Norton Park.