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Lavery's first wife, Kathleen MacDermott, whom he married in 1889, died of tuberculosis in 1891, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Eileen (later Lady Sempill, 1890–1935). In 1909 Lavery remarried, to Hazel Martyn (1886–1935), an Irish-American known for her beauty and poise, who had a daughter, Alice Trudeau (Mrs. Jack McEnery ...
Hazel Lavery, Lady Lavery (née Martyn; 1880–1935) was an American painter and the second wife of portrait artist Sir John Lavery. Famed for her beauty, Lavery's likeness appeared on banknotes of Ireland for much of the 20th century.
Eileen Lavery in 1913. In 1919, Sempill married Eileen Marion Lavery, (1890–1935) daughter of the Irish painter Sir John Lavery. He was her second husband, having divorced her first husband in Tangiers after having a daughter Diana with him. [36] The Sempill's first daughter, Ann Moira, was born in 1920.
Her father, William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill, was an air pioneer and spy for the Empire of Japan. [2] Sir John Lavery – Anne Moira and the Honourable Mrs Forbes-Sempill. She and her mother, Eileen (née Lavery), Lady Sempill, are depicted in a 1923 painting by her maternal grandfather John Lavery. [3]
Sir John Lavery, the Irish artist celebrated for his portraits resided at Rossenarra during the last few years of his life and died there on 10 January 1941, [3] having been cared for by his stepdaughter Alice McEnery, (née Trudeau) (1904-1991), daughter of his second wife Hazel Lavery.
Frederick Konig was born in College Point, [1] Long Island, New York, in 1867, [2] the second of three sons of Friedrick Konig (1826–1905) and Alette, daughter of Johannes Houtuyn Cramer. [2] His father had made a fortune from patenting a process for the hardening of rubber. Frederick moved to England around 1890. [3]
Sir Francis Wolley (1583 – November 1609) was the son of Queen Elizabeth's Latin secretary, Sir John Wolley, and Elizabeth More, the daughter of Sir William More of Loseley, Surrey. He was a Member of Parliament, and one of those to whom King James granted the Second Virginia Charter .
Sir William Burrell (9 July 1861 – 29 March 1958) was one of the world's great art collectors. He and his wife Constance, Lady Burrell (1875–1961), created a collection of over 8,000 artworks which they gave to their home city of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1944, in what has been described as 'one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world'. [1]