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.[1] She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books.

Jane Mary Dealy
Born1856 (1856)
Died1939 (aged 82–83)
NationalityBritish
EducationSlade School, the Royal Academy
Known forPainting, Illustration
SpouseSir Walter Lewis
And She Went to Market All on a Market Day (1883)

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[2] (a silver medal and £10). 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.[3]

References
  1. Clara Erskine Clement, Women in the Fine Arts from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D., Williamstown, MA, Corner House, 1977.
  2. Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979; Tauris Parke, 2001; pp. 79, 319.
  3. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 28 July 2018.
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