Only Connect - Edward Elgar <> Jelly D'Aranyi
How are these sitters connected?
Sir Edward Elgar, Bt
by William Rothenstein
1917
NPG 3868
Jelly D'Aranyi
by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume
1920s?
NPG 5735
The connection
Edward Elgar was just one of the British composers to be entranced by violinist Jelly d’Aranyi, privately calling her his ‘tenth muse’.
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