Hazel Lavery

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Lady Hazel Lavery, around 1910

Hazel, Lady Lavery (* 1880 in Chicago as Hazel Martyn , † 1935 in London ) was an Irish - American heiress and high society lady in London society. Her portrait as "Cathleen ni Houlihan" graced the Irish banknotes issued by the Central Bank of Ireland between 1928 and 1976 . It was initially retained as a watermark on the later banknotes.

Life

Hazel Martyn was a daughter of the wealthy entrepreneur and art collector Edward Jenner Martyn, of Anglo-Irish roots, and his wife Dorothy Franklin. She received a comprehensive and excellent education, spoke several foreign languages ​​and showed an interest in literature , music and painting .

John Singer Sargent : Lady Lavery, charcoal drawing, 1923

She had the reputation that she was the most beautiful girl in the American Midwest when she came to Europe at the age of 17, accompanied by her mother. In Paris she studied painting at the renowned Académie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury . On a study trip to Brittany , she met the Irish painter John Lavery . Both fell in love with each other, much to the displeasure of their mother, who then invited her previous friend Edward Livington Trudeau, a New York doctor, to come to France . In February 1903, on the advice of Mrs. Martyn, Trudeau proposed marriage to Hazel. After a few months, her husband passed away, leaving her heavily pregnant.

Hazel Trudeau moved to England with her daughter and rose to be a central figure in London society. Within a very short time she made the acquaintance of the city's most famous personalities or was in correspondence with, among others, Winston Churchill , Herbert Henry Asquith , Hilaire Belloc , Reginald McKenna , George Bernard Shaw , Lytton Strachey , Lady Ottoline Morrell and Michael Collins .

In 1910 Hazel Trudeau married the painter John Lavery (1856–1941) in London . The marriage, which all reports said was a happy one, produced a daughter, Alice Lavery. After her marriage, she became Lavery's muse and model in over 400 pictures until her death in 1935.

Name in different phases of life

  • 1880-1903 Hazel Martyn
  • 1903-1905 Hazel Trudeau
  • 1910-1935 Hazel Lavery; from 1914 Lady Lavery

literature

  • Sinead McCoole: Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery 1880-1935 , Lilliput Pr Ltd (1997) ISBN 1-874675-84-8

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personal data
SURNAME Lavery, Hazel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martyn, Hazel (maiden name); Trudeau, Hazel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-American heiress and society lady in London society
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH 1935
Place of death London