Estelle d'Avigdor Nathan (3 March 1871 – 18 September 1949) was an Austrian-British painter working in the latter years of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. Nathan was born in Mediaș, Austro-Hungary (now Romania), the daughter of Italian-born civil engineer Elim Henry D'Avigdor, and his English wife, Henrietta Jacobs of

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. Her paternal grandparents were Count Henri Salomon d'Avigdor, Duke of Acquaviva and Rachel Goldsmid, daughter of Sir

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. She moved to the UK as a child. She had five sisters and one brother, Osmond d'Avigdor Goldsmid, who was created a baronet in 1934. She exhibited at the

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in 1905, and at the Royal Academy in 1907. She was also responsible for the

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at the Goldsmid Hall,

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, in the Arts and Crafts style, showing local estate workers in typical agrarian scene. She married George Emmanuel Nathan in 1897.''England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915''

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1949 deaths 1871 births People from Mediaș 20th-century British painters British Jews Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United Kingdom {{England-painter-stub