Isabel Naftel
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| birth_name = Isabel Oakley
| birth_date = 1832
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| baptised = 20 July 1832
| death_date = 1912
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| notable_works = A Little Red Riding Hood (1862)
Musing (1869)
A Sark Cottage (1885)
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| spouse = Paul Jacob Naftel
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| father = Octavius Oakley
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File:Isabel Naftel Little Red Riding Hood.jpg
Isabel Naftel, née Oakley, (baptised 20 July 1832, died 1912) was a British artist known for her portrait, genre and landscape paintings.{{cite book|editor= HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 40 (Murrell-Nooth)|isbn=0-19-861390-3}}
Biography
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Isabel Oakley was the youngest of the three daughters of the, then, Derby based artist Octavius Oakley and his wife Maria Moseley. Her genre and portrait paintings, and landscapes of the English south coast and the Channel Islands were shown on a regular basis in London during the Victorian era.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 10 Muller-Pinchett|isbn=2-7000-3080-X}} Between 1857 and 1891, she had 54 works accepted for public exhibition.{{cite book|author1=Brian Stewart |author2=Mervyn Cutten |publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1997|title=The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920|isbn=1-85149-173-2}} Ten of Neftel's paintings were included in exhibitions at the Royal Academy and she had 13 works accepted by the Society of British Artists and nine pieces by the New Watercolour Society. 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.{{cite book|author=Christopher Wood|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1978|title=The Dictionary of Victorian Painters|isbn=0-902028-72-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofvict00wood}} Works by her were also shown at the Grosvenor Gallery and at the New Gallery.
Private life
In 1853 Isabel Oakley married the artist Paul Jacob Naftel and the couple subsequently had a daughter, Maud, who also became a notable artist.
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Category:19th-century English painters
Category:19th-century English women artists
Category:20th-century English painters
Category:English watercolourists
Category:English women watercolourists