Hazel Lavery
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 1928-1970 issued by the Central Bank of Ireland Irish banknotes.
Life
Hazel Martyn was a daughter of a wealthy businessman and art collector Edward Jenner Martyn, with the Anglo-Irish roots, and his wife Dorothy Franklin. She received a comprehensive and excellent education, spoke several languages and was reflected in literature, music and painting interested.
You had a reputation that she was the most beautiful girl of the American Midwest, when she 17 years old - came to Europe - in the company of her mother. In Paris, she studied painting at the prestigious Académie Julian under Tony Robert -Fleury. In a study trips to Brittany, she met the Irish painter John Lavery know. Both found each other like, much to the dismay of her mother, who then whose previous boyfriend Edward Livington Trudeau, a New York physician who invited her to to France. In February 1903 Trudeau made - on the advice of Mrs. Martyn - Hazel a marriage proposal. After a few months her husband died, leaving her pregnant.
Together with her daughter moved to England and grew Hazel Trudeau as the central figure on the London society. Within a short time they became acquainted with the most famous personalities of the city or state in the letter contact, 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 in London the painter John Lavery ( 1856-1941 ). From the marriage, which by all accounts was happy, was a daughter, Alice Lavery forth. After her marriage she became Lavery 's muse and model in more than 400 frames, until her death in 1935.