Hazel Lavery
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Lady Hazel Lavery |
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Hazel Martyn March 14, 1880 Chicago |
| Died | January 1, 1935 (aged 54) London |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Dr Edward Livingston Trudeau junior (1903-1904) Sir John Lavery (1909-1935) |
Hazel, Lady Lavery (1880–1935, née Hazel Martyn) was a painter and the second wife of the celebrated portrait artist Sir John Lavery. Her likeness appeared on Banknotes of Ireland for much of the 20th century.
Born in Chicago on 14 March 1880, Hazel Martyn was the daughter of Edward Jenner Martyn, a wealthy industrialist of Irish descent. A contemporary account refers to young Hazel Martyn as "The Most Beautiful Girl in the Midwest". Hazel had one sister, Dorothea Hope 'Dorothy' Martyn (1887–1911), who was an aspiring playwright. Suffering from anorexia nervosa, Dorothy died in 1911 aged 23, and it is her death that spurred Hazel to leave America.
In 1903, she married Edward Livingston Trudeau Jr, a physician who died five months later. They had one daughter, Alice, born 10 October 1904. While still married to Trudeau, she met John Lavery, a Catholic-born painter originally from Belfast. Her husband died shortly thereafter, and in 1909 she and Lavery married. Subsequently, she became Lavery's most frequent sitter.
During World War I, John Lavery became an official artist for the British government. In 1918, he received a knighthood, and Hazel Lavery became Lady Lavery.
The Laverys lent their palatial house at 5 Cromwell Place in South Kensington to the Irish delegation led by Michael Collins during negotiations for the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. After Lady Lavery died in 1935 in London, her funeral mass took place at the Brompton Oratory in Knightsbridge. She was buried with her husband in Putney Vale Cemetery. In Ireland, a memorial service for her took place at the request of the government.
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