Tissot
is famous for his exquisite paintings of beautiful English
women and most people think he was English. In fact Jacques-Joseph
Tissot was born in Nantes, then a thriving port on the
Loire estuary in western France. He adopted the name James
as an anglicised form when living in England. His friends
were Manet and Degas, with whom he shared a teacher in
the painting school in Paris.
Not a lot is known of his personal life except that around
1876 a mysterious attractive lady begins to appear in
his pictures. Her name was Kathleen Newton, née Kelly.
Her father, an Irish army officer, arranged the marriage
of his convent-educated daughter when she was only 17,
sending her off to India to marry a certain Isaac Newton,
a surgeon in the Indian Civil Service. On the ship, however,
she fell in love with a Captain Palliser, but only confessed
this to Newton after their wedding on 3rd of January 1871.
Newton's response was to divorce her immediately.
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