Painter, Suffragette. Lily Delissa Joseph started as a painter in Victorian England. She was the younger sister of noted painter Solomon Joseph Solomon. Born the daughter of a Jewish cigar magnate Joseph and his wife Helena Lichenstadt as Leah Alice "Lilly" Solomon, she was one of twelve children in the household. Her siblings included other artists, suffragettes and Zionists, who made their mark on society. Her cousin was portrait painter Flora Lion. Besides her older brother teaching her art, she studied at the Ridley School of Art and the Royal Academy of Art, becoming a portrait, landscape and interior painter with a studio in Bedford Row overlooking the Old Bailey. Her impressionist paintings were very different from her brother's work. Besides exhibiting her paintings alongside her brother's drawings at the Suffolk Street Galleries in 1924, she exhibited with the Society of Women Artists, the New English Art Club, the Royal Academy, and competing in the Paris Salon, receiving an Honorable Mention on one occasion and a silver medal in 1929. Between 1904 and 1938, she exhibited 25 paintings at the Royal Academy. She was known for limiting her colors mainly to black and white, with cobalt, rose madder, and orange madder. In 1924 she married the architect Delissa Joseph, who built two of her brother Solomon J Solomon's studios. The same year, the couple held a joint exhibition of drawings and paintings at the Suffolk Street Galleries. She, along with other female artists, had to overcome many professional obstacles of the era. Although most female students were related to a male artist, many schools would not accept female students and would not integrate art classes by sex during this period. Many galleries refused to exhibit works painted by female artists. At this point, she became very involved with the British women's suffrage movement. In 1912 she was unable to attend her own Private View at the Baillie Gallery in London as she was being detained at Holloway Gaol 'on a charge with participating with the Women's Suffrage Movement. Her husband publicly supported her suffragette activities. As a progressive woman of her time, she was one of the first women to own and drive an automobile, travelling to Palestine by car in the 1920s; she was an avid cyclist and learnt to fly airplanes when in her fifties. Like the rest of her family, she was a committed member of the Jewish community, being involved in many charitable events. She was a leading figure in the Hammersmith Synagogue, founding its Ladies' Guild. Her husband was the architect who built Hammersmith Synagogue. In 1911 while painting at the National Gallery, she met Isaac Rosenberg, the poet who authored during World War I the "Poems from the Trenches". Her family financed Rosenberg's education at Slade School of Fine Art. As a young man, Rosenberg was employed to teach her children as well as nieces and nephews. She became a widow in 1927. Posthumously in 1946, the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in London, which specializes in preserving and researching Jewish art, held an exhibition of her and her brother's paintings. Her "Self Portrait with Candles " is on display at this site. In 1978, she and her brother were included in the exhibition "Jewish Art of Great Britain 1845–1945," which was held at the Belgrave Gallery in 1978. One of her most recognized works was a 1937 bird's-eye-view cityscape, "Roofs, High Holborn.," which is part of the Tate collection. Another version of the same painting was exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in the exhibition, "Jewish Artists in England 1656–1956" from November to December of 1956. Her painting, "A Jewish Family" depicted nineteen members of her own family, dressed in traditional Jewish attire. For unknown reasons, the painting was destroyed by her own hands except for a few views of only the heads. She is of no relationship to artist Simeon Solomon.