Emma Sandys
Emma Sandys was a 19th-century British Pre-Raphaelite painter, influenced by her brother Frederick, one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (classically, some of her works were previously misidentified as being by her brother), and his friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Her earliest dated painting is marked 1863 and she exhibited her works in both London and Norwich between 1867 and 1874. Her works were mainly portraits in both oil and chalk of children and of young women, often in period or medieval clothing, against backgrounds of brightly colored flowers. The painting we present today bears all the hallmarks of Emma's mature style, and shows the level of sophistication the genre achieved during the 1860s and 1870s.
P.S. Emma Sandys was just one of many Pre-Raphaelite female painters. Meet five more Pre-Raphaelite sisters here!
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