life
Charlotte Matilda Stoker
Bram’s elder sister Matilda travelled abroad with the family and later married Charles Auguste Petitjean. A painted plate and Celtic designs preserved in the Estate collection show her artistic work.
B. 9 June 1846 at Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
D. 22 March 1920, Sierre, Switzerland
Married 3 March 1889 at Rathfarnham Church, Rathfarnam, Dublin to Charles Auguste Petitjean of Rue Marbeuf, 18, Paris, a gentleman of 31 years of age, when Matilda was approaching her 43rd birthday.
From our collection, painted by Matilda when she was 24 years old.
The plate is signed on the reverse, “Designed and painted by Matilda Stoker, 1870”. Melissa found it at a Paris flea market and traced Matilda’s family so she could return it. The family thanks her.
One of Matilda’s Celtic designs:
