Every picture tells a story

...and Market Deeping Antiques has more than its fair share of pictures and stories. to run an olive farm, Eva The painting of a young girl reading a book displayed on your left as you enter the captured the distinctive centre has an impossibly romantic tale to tell of a pretty young girl who had been landscapes of the Tuscan born to Jewish parents in Hamburg but had fortuitously emigrated to the UK in countryside in her paintings. 1938 – the family missing the Holocaust by the skin of their teeth. Eva Mehl’s On her return to the UK she father was a Polish inventor and by no means impoverished and so was able to send was appointed Vice Chair of his daughter to Bunce Court in Kent, a Eva Aldbrook Hampstead Artists’ Council progressive boarding school in the English in 1975 and exhibited at countryside for Jewish refugee children. It Camden Arts Centre (1975 was here that the young Eva met and fell and 1985) as well as the in love with Alexander Urbach (afterwards Hamilton Gallery (1980) and Aldbrook), a Viennese refugee whom she Ben Uri Art Society (1982). married seven years later. After training as Her work was included in a classical dancer and taking the name Eva Ben Uri exhibitions: ‘Exodus: Melova, Eva studied fashion and costume Masterworks from the Ben design under Muriel Pemberton at St Martin’s School of Art. An illustrious career Uri Collection’ (2018) at Bushey Museum, Hertfordshire; ‘Finchleystrasse’ as a fashion illustrator in the 1950s and 60s ensued. She was celebrated for her (2018-19) at the German Embassy, London, and ‘Liberators: Twelve Extraordinary confident, elegant style – very popular at the time. She worked for the fashion Women from the Ben Uri Collection’ (2019). But Eva had left the capital again this house Dior and eminent publications of the day including British Vogue magazine, time for Rutland in her twilight years and she died in Oakham, Rutland, in the East the Evening Standard and the Sunday Times. When the couple moved to Tuscany Midlands in 2020 at the age of 95.

Image: Lee Hellwing

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