Emma Sandys
{{short description|British painter}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Emma Sandys
| image = Photo of Emma Sandys.jpg
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| birth_name = Mary Ann Emma Sands
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1841|09|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Norwich, England,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1877|11|21|1841|09|25|df=y}}
| death_place = {{Nowrap|Norwich, England,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
| nationality = British
| education =
| field = Painting
| training =
| movement = Pre-Raphaelites
| works =
| patrons =
| relatives = Frederick Sandys (brother)
| awards =
| spouse =
}}
File:Mary Emma Jones, by Emma Sandys.jpg
File:Emma Sandys - Fiammetta.jpg
Emma Sandys (born Mary Ann Emma Sands) (25 September 1841 – 21 November 1877) was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter.{{cite book|title=British and Irish paintings in public collections: an index of British and Irish oil paintings by artists born before 1870 in public and institutional collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland|year=2006|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300117301|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XNe0mLSJQAC&pg=PA702 |author1=Christopher Wright|author2=Catherine May Gordon |author3=Mary Peskett Smith|access-date=15 June 2011|page=702}}
Biography
Emma Sandys was born in Norwich, where her father, Anthony Sands (1806–1883), gave her some early art lessons. In 1853 the family added a 'y' to their surname. She was influenced by her brother Frederick Sandys (1829–1904), one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 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.Yeldham, Charlotte (2004). Pre-Raphaelite women artists (act. 1848-1870s), female contemporaries of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (available online from 2011). Her works were mainly portraits in both oil and chalk of children and of young women, often in period clothing, against backgrounds of brightly coloured flowers.Leighton House Museum (2014). A Victorian obsession: the Pérez Simon collection at Leighton House Museum, 14 November 2014 – 29 March 2015. Exhibition guide. 75p. London, Leighton House Museum. Sandys created most of her work around Norwich, but may have spent time in the studio of her brother, Frederick Sandys, in London. She died in Norwich in November 1877.{{cite web|title=Victorian Web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/misc/esandys1.html|work=Portrait of a Girl by Emma Sandys|publisher=Victorian Web|access-date=15 June 2011}}
Her works include:
- Elaine (National Trust Collection, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton.)
- Fiammetta
- Lady in Yellow Dress (Norwich Castle Museum.)
- Viola (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.)
- La belle jaune giroflée (The Beautiful Wallflower) (KINCM:2005.6134, Ferens Art Gallery)
Gallery
File:Viola-Emma-Sandys.jpg|Viola, circa 1865
File:Emma Sandys-Preparing for the Ball 1867.jpg|Preparing for the Ball, 1867
File:Elaine Sandys.jpg|Elaine, Wightwick Manor
File:Sandys A-Medieval-beauty.jpg|A Medieval Beauty, circa 1875
File:Esandys1.jpg|Portrait of a Girl, circa 1865
References
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External links
- {{Art UK bio}}
- [https://cultureandanarchy.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/the-mysterious-emma-sandys/ The mysterious Emma Sandys] Culture and Anarchy
- [http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/emma-sandys-2/ Emma Sandys] Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
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Category:19th-century British women painters
Category:19th-century British women artists
Category:19th-century British painters