Lily Delissa Joseph

Lily Delissa Joseph (; 24 June 1863 – 27 July 1940) was a British painter, suffragette, women's right campaigner and philanthropist.

Biography Joseph was born Leah Alice Solomon on 24 June 1863 in Bermondsey, London to a wealthy and cultured Jewish family. Joseph's father, Joseph Solomon, was an Anglo-Jewish leather manufacturer, and her mother, Helena Solomon (née Lichtenstadt), was born in Prague to an Austrian-Jewish family. One of eleven siblings, Joseph was the sister of artist Solomon Joseph Solomon and the suffragette Henrietta Lowy Solomon. Joseph painted portraits, interiors and urban landscapes in a style clearly influenced by Impressionism but often with a limited palette. After meeting Isaac Rosenberg in 1911, she briefly employed him as a tutor for her children and, with others, helped pay for his studies at the Slade School of Art. Joseph was arrested at least once during the women's suffrage campaign. In March 1912, when her exhibition at the Baille Gallery, Some London and Country Interiors, was reviewed in the Jewish Chronicle a notice appeared on the same page apologising for her absence from the show's Private View reception on the grounds that "she was detained at Holloway Goal in connection with the Women's Suffrage Movement". At the 6th London Salon of the Allied Arists' Association in July 1913, Joseph exhibited a painting 'The Women's March' which although it has not survived is thought to have depicted a suffrage demonstration or, possibly, the 1912 Edinburgh to London 'Women's March'. In 1946 the Ben Uri Gallery in London had a joint exhibition of works by Joseph and her brother Solomom and examples of her paintings were included in the Jewish Art of Great Britain 1845–1945 exhibition held at the Belgrave Gallery in 1978. For a time she was also the art critic for 'The Women's Gazette', a paper the supported the Women's Liberal Federation. The Josephs had a house at Birchington in Kent for a time.