Maud Naftel

Maud Naftel
Born	1856
Died	1890 Chelsea, London
Nationality	British
Education	Slade School of Art
Occupation	Painter
Known for	Watercolour painting
Parent(s)	Paul Jacob Naftel and Isabel Naftel

Maud Naftel (1856–1890) was a British watercolourist.^[1]

Life

Naftel was born in 1856, the daughter of Isabel Oakley and Paul Jacob Naftel who were both watercolour painters.^[1][2] She has been reported as an only child but it is thought that another artist named Isabel Naftel was her sister.^[2] Maud was trained in painting by her father, at the Slade School of Fine Art and by Carolus-Duran in Paris.^[3]

1888 painting by Naftel of Horsmonden

Naftel exhibited at the Dudley Art Gallery and with their Society.^[3] She was considered to the "only true" flower painter as her parents, her sister and her two painting aunts had different or wider painting interests.^[4] Her illustrated book "Flowers and How to Paint Them"^[1] was published in 1886 and it became a standard work.^[3][2]

Naftel died in London in 1890 at her father's home in Chelsea. She was one of the first people to be cremated at Woking Crematorium. She had been a member of the Cremation Society of Great Britain.^[3]

References

1. "Women 2018 - Category: Women 2018 - Image: 25. Maud Naftel, 1856-1890". maasgallery.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
2. Christopher Wood (1978). The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0-902028-72-3.
3. "Naftel, Paul Jacob (1817–1891), watercolour painter and art teacher | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19719. Retrieved 3 January 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting. Taylor & Francis. 5 July 2017. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-1-351-55315-5.