Emma Sandys

Emma Sandys (born Mary Ann Emma Sands) (25 September 1841 – 21 November 1877) was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter.^[1]

Emma Sandys
Born	Mary Ann Emma Sands (1841-09-25)25 September 1841 Norwich, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died	21 November 1877(1877-11-21) (aged 36) Norwich, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Nationality	British
Known for	Painting
Movement	Pre-Raphaelites
Relatives	Frederick Sandys (brother)

Mary Emma Jones by Emma Sandys, 1874

Fiammetta by Emma Sandys, 1876

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.^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^[4]

Her works include:

• Elaine (National Trust Collection, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton.)^[2]
• Fiammetta
• Lady in Yellow Dress (Norwich Castle Museum.)^[2]
• Viola (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.)^[2]
• La belle jaune giroflée (The Beautiful Wallflower) (KINCM:2005.6134, Ferens Art Gallery)

Gallery

• 
  Viola, circa 1865
• 
  Preparing for the Ball, 1867
• 
  Elaine, Wightwick Manor
• 
  A Medieval Beauty, circa 1875
• 
  Portrait of a Girl, circa 1865

References

1. Christopher Wright; Catherine May Gordon; Mary Peskett Smith (2006). 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. Yale University Press. p. 702. ISBN 9780300117301. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. "Victorian Web". Portrait of a Girl by Emma Sandys. Victorian Web. Retrieved 15 June 2011.

External links

• 7 artworks by or after Emma Sandys at the Art UK site
• The mysterious Emma Sandys Culture and Anarchy
• Emma Sandys Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood