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’.

Find out more about D'Aranyi connections with co-curator Peter Sheppard Skaerved

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Jelly D'Aranyi <> Edward Elgar

Jelly D'Aranyi <> Gustav Holst

Jelly D'Aranyi <> Joseph Joachim

Jelly D'Aranyi <> Philip Heseltine

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