He met Emma Wightwick in 1853 and married her a decade later, on 3 January 1863, at St Marylebone, Westminster. He is recorded in the 1861 England Census as a lodger at 85 Newman St in Marylebone. He was reportedly studying chemistry at University College, London, in 1851. He consulted an oculist in Düsseldorf, Germany. In fact, du Maurier's grandfather, Robert-Mathurin Busson, was a tradesman who left Paris in 1789 to avoid charges of fraud and later changed the family name to the grander-sounding du Maurier.ĭu Maurier studied art in Paris in the studio of Charles Gleyre, and moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where he lost the vision in his left eye. He was brought up to believe his aristocratic grandparents had fled from France during the Revolution, leaving vast estates behind, to live in England as émigrés. George du Maurier was born in Paris, the son of Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and Ellen Clarke, daughter of the Regency courtesan Mary Anne Clarke. He was also the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J. He was the father of the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier and artist Jeanne du Maurier. George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for his work in Punch and for his Gothic novel Trilby, which featured the character Svengali.
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