First Loves

Period drawing of Jane’s father, Admiral Henry Digby – her darling Babou.

A period painting of Jane’s first husband, Lord Ellenborough. She remarks in Volume One of Jane Digby’s Diary that he is “really very handsome, a fact of which he is not unaware.”

by Frederick Richard Say, oil on canvas, circa 1845

George Anson, Jane’s cousin and secret passion.