17 Facts About Grace Alekhine

Grace Alekhine's parents were Emile Bernard Wishaar was born on Weishaar in Paris, 1842, died in Richmond, Washington on 8 September 1918 and and Marie Ida Smith.

Grace Alekhine received training at the New York School of Art under William Chase, and began her career in painting there.

Grace Alekhine married Whitney Irving Eisler in Seattle, Washington on 13 September 1897; the next year her son was born there.

Grace Alekhine was known as Carroll Earl Beauchamp Peeke throughout his life.

Grace Alekhine married Oscar Graham Peeke in Seattle, Washington on 5 March 1902.

Grace Alekhine moved to Oakland, California, in 1903, and again as Grace Wishaar, she established a career as a visual artist.

Grace Alekhine's work became known on both a large and small scale: first as a miniature portraitist and then as a theatrical scenery painter.

Grace Alekhine began her work at the Herald Square Theatre, New York.

Grace Alekhine later married Archibald C Freeman in Ceylon, a dual British-American citizen, and she retained the British citizenship obtained through him to the end of her life.

Grace Alekhine married and divorced Henry James Bromley, according to her French marriage certificate to Alexandre Alekhine.

Grace Alekhine asked him to sign the book and their relationship developed from that moment.

Grace Alekhine was 16 years older than her husband and wealthy, with a magnificent chateau called La Chatellenie Saint-Aubin-le-Cauf, a few miles southwest of Dieppe in Normandy, and an art studio in Paris.

Grace Alekhine was effectively exiled to Portugal while Grace elected to remain in France to monitor the welfare of her various properties at the mercy of the invaders.

Grace Alekhine even found time to compete in the Paris Championship of 1944 when she became the Ladies Champion.

Grace Alekhine spent her final years in her studio in Paris, but visited St Ives, Cornwall, where she was a member of the local chess club.

Grace Alekhine died in Paris, 1956 and was buried next to Alexander in the Cimetiere du Montparnasse, Paris, to where Alekhine's body had been transferred from Portugal after a long campaign she had led.

Grace Alekhine's son was raised an Episcopalian, and it is unlikely she practiced Judaism.