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Kathleen "Kate" Newton (née Kelly; 1854–1882) was the Irish muse and mistress of French artist James Jacques Tissot. ==Early life== Kathleen Irene Ashburnham "Kate" Kelly was descended from an Irish Catholic medical family and raised in Agra and Lahore in India.〔(Isaacs, Deanna. "James Tissot's tragic muse", ''Chicago Reader'' (Sun Times), 19 August 2013 )〕 Her father, Charles Frederick Ashburnham Kelly, an Irish army officer, was employed by the East India Company in Lahore; her mother, Flora Boyd, was from Ireland. Kate had two siblings: Frederick W.D. and Mary Pauline. Around the time of the Sepoy Rising of 1858, Kate's father was transferred to Agra, a city famous for the Taj Mahal, where he rose to the rank of chief adjutant and accountant officer. He retired to London in the 1860s. Kelly made a match for his sixteen-year-old daughter Kate with Isaac Newton, a surgeon with the Indian Civil Service. On the outward voyage to be married, Captain Palliser became obsessed with her beauty but did not succeed in his seduction. After the marriage in January 1870 and before consummation, Kate, reportedly upon the advice of a Catholic priest, explained to Isaac the situation regarding the captain. Newton instituted divorce proceedings and sent her back to England. The captain paid for her passage, the deal being that in return she would become his mistress. She became pregnant but refused to marry Palliser. Her daughter, Muriel Violet Mary Newton, was born in Yorkshire on 20 December 1871〔 on the same day that her decree nisi came through. The decree absolute for her divorce was granted 20 July 1872.〔(Wood, Christopher. "Newton, Kathleen", ''Dictionary of Artists' Models'', Jill Berk Jimenez (ed.), p. 398, Routledge (2013); ISBN 1135959145, 9781135959142 )〕 Kate and Violet went to live with Kate's married sister Polly's family at Hill Road, St John's Wood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Tissot's tragic muse )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Tissot and Kathleen Newton )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathleen Newton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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