User:Davidjoel/Grace Joel

Grace Jane Joel (26 May 1865-6 Mar 1924) was a New Zealand born artist. She is known for her portait painting but also produced landscape and still life paintings with equal skill. Considered an independent person she in fact had a network of Jewish relatives in Melbourne and London, mainly on her mothers side. In Australia Deborah(Daisy)Isaacs(nee Jacobs) was a cousin as was Emanuel Phillps Fox. While she is reputed to have had a liason with Girolamo Nerli and was a relative of Julius Vogel neither has even been substantiated. However she was well supported financially and hugely encouraged in the life she led by her father, Maurice Joel, who made a fortune from the unwitting purchase and subsequent financial success of the Red Lion brewery in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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