Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameComte Edouard (Joseph) Cahen d’Anvers
Birthabt 1835
Deathbef 1910
OccupationBanker.
Note 1Created Marchese di Torre Alfina in 1881.
FatherComte Joseph Mayer Cahen (?-?)
Marriageabt 1869
SpouseChristina (Michael) Spartali, 2C5R
Birth19 May 1846, London, England
Death27 Sep 1884, Tyrol, Austria
MemoOr 22 Sep 1884. Or Germany? May have committed suicide.
Burial9 Oct 1884, Hellenic Enclosure, West Norwood Cemetery, London, England
Baptism23 Jun 1846, Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England
Residence1884, Rome, Italy
OriginSmyrna.
Note 1Painted in an oil sketch by Whistler (in 2002 at Worcester Art Museum) and subject of his ‘La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine’ in 1864 (in 2002 at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, USA). Whistler’s pencil & pastel portrait of her is missing.
Note 1She may have died of an overdose of chloral to which she was addicted from at least 1870.
God-parentsP. Lascarides.
FlagsGiustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Scanavi, Spartali1
FatherMichael (Dimitrios) Spartali (1818-1914)
MotherEuphrosyne (P.) Varsamis (1825-1913)
Children