Only Connect - Jelly D'Aranyi <> Ludwig Van Beethoven

How are these sitters connected?

Jelly D'Aranyi
by Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume
1920s?
NPG 5735

Ludwig van Beethoven
by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
(1823)
NPG D13759

The connection
Jelly d’Aranyi was Joseph Joachim’s great niece. She wrote ‘he could make Beethoven seem simple’, because ‘the secret was to trust Beethoven’.

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