Jessie Case Vesel

Catharine Jessie Case Vesel (September 1855 – 20 March 1937) was an English painter who worked for ten years in what is now Slovenia.

Biography Jessie Case Vesel was born in September 1855 to an English family in Hampstead. In 1895 she attended an art school in Schwabing where she was taught by the Slovenian painter Ferdo Vesel.

She and Ferdo Vesel grew closer, and at the beginning of 1897 she posed for him for her portrait, which is now held by the National Gallery of Slovenia. In September 1897 they married in Hampstead. After the wedding they travelled around Europe for more than a year. In 1899 they moved to his homeland where they lived in the former Ursuline monastery in Mekinje, Kamnik. In the exhibition catalogue she is listed as a painter living in Kamnik. She visited England again in 1901. Soon afterward she and her husband again set off on a trip around Europe. She died on 20. March 1937 in Exmoor.