Jane Mary Dealy
Jane Mary Dealy (1856 – 1939), known as Lady Lewis from 1904, was an English artist of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books. Jane Mary Dealy was born in Liverpool, she was educated at the Slade School and the Royal Academy Schools; at the latter, she won the 1880 first prize for best drawing (a silver medal and £10).
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- Name
- Jane Mary Dealy
- Died
- 1939
- Education
- Slade School, the Royal Academy
- Field
- Painting, Illustration
- Spouse
- Sir Walter Lewis
- Born
- 1856 · Liverpool.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- painting
- Languages
- English
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Jane Mary Dealy (1856 – 1939), known as Lady Lewis from 1904, was an English artist of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books. Jane Mary Dealy was born in Liverpool, she was educated at the Slade School and the Royal Academy Schools; at the latter, she won the 1880 first prize for best drawing (a silver medal and £10).
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She showed her works at the Royal Academy shows and at the Institute of Painters of Water Colours. She married Walter Lewis in 1887; after his knighthood, she was known as Lady Lewis. The children's books she illustrated included The Land of Little People, Sixes and Sevens, Children's Hymns, Children's Prayers, and The Easy-to-Read Storybook. Dealy exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
1905 print after page of Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London
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• Name — Jane Mary Dealy • Died — 1939 • Education — Slade School, the Royal Academy • Field — Painting, Illustration • Spouse — Sir Walter Lewis • Illustration — And She Went to Market All on a Market Day (1883)
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