Lydia Welti-Escher
1858–1891 (age 33)
Biography
Lydia Welti-Escher (10 July 1858 – 12 December 1891) was a Swiss patron of the arts. The only surviving child of businessman and politician Alfred Escher, she was one of the richest women in Switzerland at the time and established the Gottfried Keller Foundation.
She married Friedrich Emil Welti but had an affair with the artist Karl Stauffer-Bern; both she and Stauffer eventually died by suicide.