Amelia Long, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Amelia Long

British horticulturalist

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1762

Place of Birth: Belton House, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1837

Profession: painter, horticulturist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Amelia Long (née Hume), Lady Farnborough (1772-1837) was a watercolor painter who specialized in landscapes and botanical subjects. Born in Wormley in 1772, Long would specialize in watercolors of landscapes depicting the Bromley area in Kent.
Long, who was an honorary exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1822 and at the British Institution in 1825, studied with Thomas Girtin and Henry Edridge.
Examples of her work are held by Galleries of Scotland National Galleries of Scotland, Dundee Art Gallery, and the British Museum.Long was the elder daughter of Sir Abraham Hume and Amelia Egerton.
Together with her sister Sophia, Countess Brownlow, she was heiress to her parents' art collection. Well known in her day as a judge of art and a skilled horticulturist, Long largely assisted in laying out the gardens at Bromley Hill, Kent, a 1760s property she and her husband Charles Long bought in 1801 and enlarged according to their own designs.
By 1809, the gardens at Bromley Hill House had two mile-long, picturesque walks, and the present view of St.
Paul's Cathedral.
Long's paintings of four separate views from the grounds of Bromley Hill House were exhibited between 1811 and 1817.
The gardens have since disappeared, but the house, though altered, remains.She died at Bromley Hill on 15 January 1837, and was buried at Wormley, Hertfordshire, with an elaborate tomb by Richard Westmacott.



Alternative names	Sir Joshua Reynolds
Description	British painter
Date of birth/death	16 July 1723	23 February 1792
Location of birth/death	Plympton	London
Work location	London, Plympton, Italy
Authority control	: Q194402 VIAF: 27081216 ISNI: 0000 0001 0881 5237 ULAN: 500004539 LCCN: n84168483 NLA: 35449606 WorldCat