PEEL, Maud

1843 - 1939

Julia Maud Peel was born at 4 Orford Square, Westminster, London on 1 July 1843 and baptised at Westminster on 15 December 1844, daughter of Jonathan Peel (1 May 1806-6 March 1885), a barrister-at-law, and his wife Mary née Wilde (18 May 1812-7 November 1876), who married at Fletching, East Sussex on 23 August 1838, the family were extremely wealthy and Maud, as she was known, was the niece of prime minister Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) and was named after his wife Julia née Floyd (1795–1859). In 1851, Maud was a 7-year-old, living at Knowlmere Hall, Newton, Clitheroe, Lancashire with her 38-year-old mother and three siblings, and they kept thirteen indoor servants, and she was still living at Knowlmere Hall in 1881 with her 76-year-old widowed father and her two unmarried sisters, Mary Ann 41 and Edith 33. As J. Maud Peel she studied at Herkomer's Art School in 1885 and promoted her painting as one of the 'Herkomer Ladies' of Bushey, Hertfordshire and in 1893 she was also tutored in Walberswick, Suffolk by Charles Lasar (1856-1936) when she painted 'The River, Walberswick' and 'The Hamlet at Evening, Walberswick' which were exhibited at the Dudley Art Society in 1895. She exhibited widely, showing at the Royal Society of British Artists from Swaledale, Yorkshire in 1884, 'Barges on the Thames' and 'Carnations' also exhibiting at the Royal Academy and the Society of Women Artists. In 1901, a 57-year-old, living at Heronden, Tenterton, Kent, the home of her cousin, 57-year-old Hester Ann Curteis Peel, a widow, and her three daughters, but in 1911 was living 'on private means' at 'The Armoury' at Winchelsea, Sussex with two servants, a dilapidated property that she had purchased in 1897 and had renovated, and was very active in local affairs. Julia Maud Peel was still of The Armoury when she died at Woodmancote, Woodland Vale Road, St Leonards, Hastings, Sussex on 8 February 1939, aged 95, she was unmarried.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from c/o Mr. Jennings, 16 Duke Street, Manchester Square, London
1885 1235 In the Garden - watercolour

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Works by This Artist