Jane Mary Dealy (1856 – 1939), known as Lady Lewis from 1904, was an English artist of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[1] She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books.
Born in Liverpool, she was educated at the Slade School and the Royal Academy Schools; at the latter, she won the 1880 first prize for best drawing[2] (a silver medal and £10). She showed her works at the Royal Academy shows and at the Institute of Painters of Water Colours. She married Walter Lewis in 1887; after his knighthood, she was known as Lady Lewis.
The children's books she illustrated included The Land of Little People, Sixes and Sevens, Children's Hymns, Children's Prayers, and The Easy-to-Read Storybook.
^Clara Erskine Clement, Women in the Fine Arts from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D., Williamstown, MA, Corner House, 1977.
^Germaine Greer, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979; Tauris Parke, 2001; pp. 79, 319.
