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ELISABETH (ELLIE) WEINGARTEN (BRITISH 1884-1942)

ELISABETH (ELLIE) WEINGARTEN (BRITISH 1884-1942) Portrait miniature of a lady facing right, wearing a pale blue off the shoulder dress, with cream roses at her corsage, apparently seated in a chair, with a curtain behind her and a large framed painting on the wall signed and dated 1923, lower right watercolour on ivory gilt-metal frame with beaded border oval, 100 mm (4 in) high Elli (Elizabeth), was born into a Jewish family in Brunn, Bohemia, (now Brno, Czech Republic), and was active as a miniaturist in Vienna. In 1942, she was arrested by the Nazis, and sent to a concentration camp in Riga, where she died.