Isabel Naftel, née Oakley, (baptised 20 July 1832, died 1912) was a British artist known for her portrait, genre and landscape paintings.

Biography

Naftel was the youngest of the three daughters of the, then,

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based artist

Octavius Oakley Octavius Oakley RWS (27 April 1800, in Bermondsey – 1 March 1867, in London), was a British watercolour portrait, figure and landscape artist. Life Oakley was born in Bermondsey, London on the 27th April 1800. Initially he worked for a ...

and his wife Maria Moseley. Her genre and portrait paintings, and landscapes of the English south coast and the

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were shown on a regular basis in London during the

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. Between 1857 and 1891, Naftel had 54 works accepted for public exhibition. Ten of her paintings were included in exhibitions at the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

. Naftel also had 13 works accepted by the Society of British Artists and nine pieces by the

New Watercolour Society The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), initially called the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, is one of the societies in the Federation of British Artists, based in the Mall Galleries in London. History In 1831 the so ...

. Among her works shown at the Royal Academy were ''A Little Red Riding Hood'' in 1862, ''Musing'' in 1869 and ''A Sark Cottage'' in 1885. Works by her were also shown at the

Grosvenor Gallery The Grosvenor Gallery was an art gallery in London founded in 1877 by Sir Coutts Lindsay and his wife Blanche. Its first directors were J. Comyns Carr and Charles Hallé. The gallery proved crucial to the Aesthetic Movement because it provided ...

and at the New Gallery. In 1853 Naftel married the artist

Paul Jacob Naftel Paul Jacob Naftel (10 September 1817 – 13 September 1891) was a watercolour painter from Guernsey, the only Guernsey-born professional painter of the 19th century. Biography Naftel was born on 10 September 1817 in Guernsey. He was a self-t ...

and the couple subsequently had a daughter, Maud, who also became a notable artist.

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