 1843 - 1934 (90 years)
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| Name |
Joseph John Jaffe |
| Born |
19 Nov 1843 |
Hamburg, Germany  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Biography |
President of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce. Bequethed the Napoleon library to the French Government.
Built a beautiful Villa at 36 Promenades des Anglais in Nice. As well, he had homes in Monte Carlo and Neufchatel.
Clubs: Royal Societies, Reform (Belfast.)
Ce dernier constitua avec sa femme Anna une collection de tableaux Netherlandsais et anglais grâce aux conseils du célèbre conservateur de Berlin, Germany, Wilhem von Bode. Entre 1885 et 1900, le couple résidait en villégiature à Nice. On pouvait alors rencontrer à la Villa Jaffé, sur la promenade des anglais, Marcel Proust et Henry James. John Jaffé décéda en 1933.
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Daniel Joseph Jaffé’s son Joseph John Jaffé (1843-1934), known[1] to his family as “John”, he married on 3 June 1873 Anna Emilie Gluge (c. 1845 – 1942). While in Belfast he was President of the Chamber of Commerce, along with their other homes in Monte Carlo and Neufchatel, he had the “Villa Jaffé” built on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice and used to take holidays there c. 1885-1900, while he was hosting guests such as Henry James or Marcel Proust.
According to the 1880 Belfast Street Directory, John Jaffé used to live in Cambridge Villas, while his brother Otto Jaffé was in Canadian Villas, and his brother Alfred Jaffé was in Strandtown (county Down, 2 miles away from Belfast).
John Jaffé gave several books bounds with the arms of Napoléon I to the "Bibliothèque du chevalier de Cessole" (villa Masséna in Nice)[2]. With the advice of Wilhelm von Bode, he built with his wife a collection of Dutch and English paintings[3]. The villa was later “mise sous séquestre” by the Vichy government, and it was later destroyed. King George V and Queen Mary congratulated the couple for its Diamond Wedding anniversary.
[1]) As indicated by Solange Rambach to Hadrien Rambach on 31 April 2006
[2] As said for example by an article in L’Illustration, on 28/01/1933 (not seen).
[3]) About sixty of the paintings were later stolen by the Germans during WW2 in 1943, and there was an auction in Nice at the Hotel Savoy on 12-13 July 1943. In May 2005, 3 paintings were given back to the heirs, and they were sold by Christie’s on 8 July 2005:
- lot 48, Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), The Grand Canal with the Palazzo Bembo, exhibited 1952-2005 in the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, sold for £ 4,376,000 to the Getty Museum
- lot 49, David Teniers II (1610-1690), Designs for tapestries, (2), probably bought at auction in Paris in 1903, exhibited 1950-2005 in the Musée du Louvre, sold for £ ,254,400
The Kimbell Art Museum still keeps a painting by Joseph Turner (1775-1851), lot 121 of the same 1943 auction. [1] |
| Hebrew Birth |
26 Che 5604 |
| Immigration |
1885 |
Nice, France |
| Hebrew Death |
21 Iya 5694 |
| Occupation |
Merchant |
| Residence |
Hamburg, Germany |
| Residence |
Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Residence |
Nice, France |
| Died |
6 May 1934 |
Nice, France |
| Person ID |
I4957 |
Blank Family |
| Last Modified |
28 Aug 2011 |
| Father |
Daniel Jaffe, b. 10 Aug 1809, Schwerin, Germany , d. 21 Jan 1874, Nice, France (Age 64 years) |
| Mother |
Friederike Rika Josephy, b. 1 Jan 1819, Parchim, Germany , d. 30 Oct 1909, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Age 90 years) |
| Married |
6 Oct 1838 |
Parchim, Germany |
| Family ID |
F1462 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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