Emma Sophia Oliver née Eburne later Emma Sedgewick, (15 August 1819 – 15 March 1885) was a British landscape painter.[1]
Biography
editOliver was born in London, being the daughter of Mary and William Eburne, a coach-builder from Rathbone Place.[2] In September 1840 she married the painter William Oliver and the couple regularly took painting tours of Britain and Germany.[3] Emma Oliver exhibited watercolours and oil paintings from these tours at the Royal Academy in London, at the British Institution and with the Society of British Artists.[2][1] In 1849 she was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours.[2] William Oliver died in 1853 and his widow remarried in, or around, 1856 a John Sedgewick but continued to exhibit works as Oliver until her death at Great Berkhamsted in 1885.[2][1] Her later works included Rhine landscapes and scenes of Venice. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds examples of her work.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 10 Muller-Pinchetti. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006.
- ^ a b c d HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison, ed. (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 41 (Norbury-Osborn). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861391-1.
- ^ "Oliver, William". Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
- ^ "View from the Cat and Fiddle, Buxton". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 30 September 2019.