Julia Lemos was an artist born in New York in the early 1840s but lived most of her life in Chicago, where she died in 1923. In an autobiographical statement, she explained that she was the daughter of Baron Eustace Wyszynski of Warsaw, who had been exiled by the Russians after the failed insurrection of 1831, and that her mother, Joanna Van Buren, was a cousin of President Martin Van Buren. At sixteen she married Nicolas Lemos. When the great Chicago Fire struck, she was living near the corner of Menomonee and Wells streets in the North Division with her father, her mother, and her five children, and working for a lithography company. She later created an oil painting (Memories of the Chicago Fire; Julia Lemos, Oil Painting, 1912 (ichi-62293)) depicting what she witnessed during the fire, (memories she carried until her death in 1923) which is now at in the Chicago History Museum.
Two of Julia's children, William M. Lemos and Josephine Lemos Reichmann and a granddaughter, Josephine Dorothea Reichmann, became accomplished artists as well.
Two of Julia's children, William M. Lemos and Josephine Lemos Reichmann and a granddaughter, Josephine Dorothea Reichmann, became accomplished artists as well.
Julia Lemos was an artist born in New York in the early 1840s but lived most of her life in Chicago, where she died in 1923. In an autobiographical statement, she explained that she was the daughter of Baron Eustace Wyszynski of Warsaw, who had been exiled by the Russians after the failed insurrection of 1831, and that her mother, Joanna Van Buren, was a cousin of President Martin Van Buren. At sixteen she married Nicolas Lemos. When the great Chicago Fire struck, she was living near the corner of Menomonee and Wells streets in the North Division with her father, her mother, and her five children, and working for a lithography company. She later created an oil painting (Memories of the Chicago Fire; Julia Lemos, Oil Painting, 1912 (ichi-62293)) depicting what she witnessed during the fire, (memories she carried until her death in 1923) which is now at in the Chicago History Museum.
Two of Julia's children, William M. Lemos and Josephine Lemos Reichmann and a granddaughter, Josephine Dorothea Reichmann, became accomplished artists as well.
Two of Julia's children, William M. Lemos and Josephine Lemos Reichmann and a granddaughter, Josephine Dorothea Reichmann, became accomplished artists as well.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
