Maud Naftel

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When Hops are Housed and Gardens Bare, 1888
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Maud Naftel (1 June 1856 – 18 February 1890) was a British watercolourist who specialised in flowers and genre paintingPaintings that depict scenes of ordinary people going about their everyday lives..[a]The family name, meaning “little turnip”, was said to be reflective of their features.[1] Born in Guernsey, she was the daughter of the artists Paul Jacob Naftel (1816–1891) and Isabel Oakley (1832–1912). By at least the early 1870s, the family had moved from Guernsey to Paddington, London, where Maud went on to study art at the Slade School, and then under Carolus Duran in Paris.[1][2][3]

Maud became an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1887, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1875 to 1889.[2] She also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute and the Grosvenor Gallery, but most prolifically at the Society of Women Artists, where she showed sixty-seven works between 1874 and 1891, the first when she was 18 years of age.[3]

Death and legacy

Following a brief but painful illness, Maud died at her father’s house in Chelsea on 18 February 1890, aged just 33. As a member of the Crematorium Society of Great Britain, she was one of the first to be cremated at Woking crematorium; her ashes were buried in the grave of her grandfather, Octavius Oakley, at Highgate Cemetery in London. Maud’s book, Flowers and How to Paint Them (1886), became a standard work on the subject.[1][2]

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Notes
a The family name, meaning “little turnip”, was said to be reflective of their features.[1]

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