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Daughter of Athens “Teresa Makri” – Watercolor painting on paper.
Dimensions: 12.0 X 7.5 cm (without frame). Dimensions: 30.0 X 26.0 cm (framed).
Biography:
Teresa or Theresia Makris (November 4, 1797 – October 21, 1875) was an Athenian beauty, the eldest of the three daughters of Prokopios Makris (1764–1799), British consul in Athens. She was born, as her father notes in the family record, on November 4, 1797, a Wednesday, in a house at 14 Agia Thekla Street (demolished today, since 1974) in the Psirri district in Athens.
In this house at 14 Agias Thekla Street, the young Teresa Makri, only thirteen years old, met Lord Byron in 1810, when the poet came to rent three rooms in the house of her widowed mother, who lived by renting rooms on the second floor her mansion to foreign visitors. Byron’s three-month stay in this house was interspersed with a Platonic romance. Byron fell madly in love with the young Teresa Makris, who became his poetic muse, writing for her the poem “The Maid of Athens”, which ended in every stanza with the verse “My life, I love you”.
In 1829, Teresa Makri married the English officer James Black, with whom she had four children. When the Crimean War (1854 – 1856) began, Black served in Constantinople, where his wife Teresa accompanied him. Later, he was appointed vice-consul of England at Messolonghi, where he stayed with Teresa for some years and where he died in 1866.
Teresa Makri was a woman of her time, an extraordinary beauty, with an excellent education, she spoke foreign languages, she had been taught Italian by the Italian painter Giovanni Battista Luzieri and had published a small dictionary with her sister in Corfu, where the family had taken refuge of the time of the Revolution. But at the end of her life she experienced difficult days. In 1872, the French composer Charles Gounod wrote a musical work for her entitled “Daughter of Athens”, sending all the proceeds from the concert to Teresa Makris to help her financially.
Teresa Makri died on October 21, 1875 in Athens, at the age of 78. In the Benaki Museum in Athens, the red fezaki with the golden tassel of the “Daughter of Athens” is kept today, next to a portable desk of Byron. Her only daughter Karolina, who died aged 86 in January 1920, lived with her mother’s memory in a house at 13 Kerameikou Street in Metaxourgeio.
Painting of the Daughter of Athens “Teresa Makri” – An exceptional and collectible painting.
Code: E878
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