Isobel Campbell Macduff
(1837-1866)
22 June 1865

Volume 12, page 330, sitting number 16,469.

[The sitter was still 'Miss I. Thomson' when she visited Silvy's studio. Later that year, she married the artist William Macduff.]

Born in the West Indies in 1836 or 1837, Isobel Campbell Thomson was the daughter of merchant Robert Craig Thomson. 

She appears on the 1861 census living in Islington with her mother Christina Cleland Thomson and her widowed grandmother Jane Thomson. The two older women were both born in Scotland. All three women gave 'Fundholder' as their source of income. Also present on the night of the census were a cook and a housemaid. 

In 1865 Isobel Campbell Thomson married the artist William Macduff in Kensington, London. 

According to an announcement in the Glasgow Herald (14 July 1866), 'Isobel Campbell, wife of William Macduff, Esq.' died, aged only 29, on 9 July 1866 'at Ellerslie, Merton, Surrey.' The cause of death, according to her death certificate, was 'Disease of the Kidney / Effusion on the Brain.' She was buried on 13 July 1866 in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.