Emily Farmer
Emily Farmer (25 July 1826, London - 8 May 1905, Portchester, Hampshire) was an English watercolour painter.
Life
She was one of three children of John Biker Farmer, who worked for the
Art
Farmer initially painted
Other well-known works include Deceiving Granny (1860), The Primrose Seller (1867), The ABC Class (1863), The Undecided Purchaser (1864), and The Listener (1872).
In 1854 she was elected a member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours to whose exhibitions she sent ninety-six paintings over a fifty-year period. She also showed works at the Liverpool Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.[1]
Over this period she lived at Portchester House, Hospital Lane, Portchester, Hampshire, where she died in 1905. She is buried nearby in St Mary's churchyard within Portchester Castle.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b Long 1912.
- ^ In doubt, Museum no. D.395-1905, V&A collections online
- ^ Yeldham 2004.
References
- Long, Basil Somerset (1912). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- Yeldham, Charlotte (2004). "Farmer, Emily (1826–1905)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33080. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)