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who advanced the treatment of tuberculosis. Trudeau died five months later from an embolism brought on by pneumonia. They had one daughter, Alice, born 10 October 1904 (Alice later spent much of her life in
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Lavery's biographer described "Hazel in rose and grey" as "One of the nicest of Lavery's "Hazel in" pictures. For once he abandons the full-length format and the composition gains a more curvy, dynamic appearance. Hazel, profiled by what
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Hazel Lavery died of a heart attack on 1 January 1935 at her home in London, having been suffering ill health for over a year after an operation to remove a wisdom tooth, with her husband and daughter at her side.
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Ireland by the
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Her well-known face and the characteristic red, purple and gold colour harmonies make The Red Rose immediately recognizable as a portrait of her. However, the canvas was begun in 1892 as a portrait of Mrs
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whilst engaged to
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and that it would not have been tolerated. Ryan also states that correspondence between
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government invited Lavery to create an image of a female personification of
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has cast doubts on these rumours. Ryan states that "in all the research I have done, I have found no evidence whatsoever that he had an affair with Lady Lavery".
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