Jane Mary Dealy (1856 – 1939) was an English artist of the forward-looking nineteenth and in front twentieth centuries. She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a thriving illustrator of children’s books.
Born in Liverpool, she was educated at the Slade School and the Royal Academy Schools; at the latter, she won the 1880 first prize for best drawing (a silver medal and £10). She showed her works at the Royal Academy shows and at the Institute of Painters of Water Colours. She married Walter Lewis in 1887; after his knighthood, she was known as Lady Lewis.
The children’s books she illustrated included The Land of Little People, Sixes and Sevens, Children’s Hymns, Children’s Prayers, and The Easy-to-Read Storybook.
Dealy exhibited her fake at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
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