Editing Joseph Severn (section)

== Marriage and family ==

In 1828 Severn married Elizabeth Montgomerie, the natural (i.e. [[Legitimacy (family law)|illegitimate]]) daughter of Archibald, Lord Montgomerie (1773–1814) and the ward of [[Priscilla Fane, Countess of Westmorland|the Countess of Westmoreland]], one of the artist's patrons in Rome. Together they had seven children, three of whom became noteworthy artists: [[Walter Severn|Walter]] and Arthur Severn, and [[Ann Mary Newton]], who married the archeologist and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, [[Charles Thomas Newton]]. Mary had a successful painting career in England, supporting the family for a time, and executing a number of portraits of the Royal Family. Her early death from measles at the age of 32 affected Severn. In 1871, Arthur Severn married Joan Ruskin Agnew, a cousin of the Victorian art and social critic [[John Ruskin]]. The Severns had another child, Arthur, who died as an infant in a crib accident. He is buried between Keats and Severn in the [[Protestant Cemetery, Rome|
Protestant Cemetery in Rome]].