Emma Sandys (1834-1877) British Painter

Portrait of a Girl

Emma Sandys(b.1843 in Norwich) was the second child of Anthony Sands, a jobbing painter, and the sister of Frederick Sandys. She was taught by her father and like her brother produced bust length portraits of women in an intense and detailed Pre-Raphaelite style. Sandys attracted a considerable number of of commissions for child portraits and exhibited portraits and female heads in oil and chalk drawings in Norwich and at the Royal Academy, when she moved to London in 1874.

Fiammetta, 1876

The Garland, 1870

Study of a Head, 1877

Viola, 1870

Elaine, 1863

Girl in a Hat, 1877

Lady in a Yellow Dress

Portrait of a Lady, 1866

Revealing Her Hand

A Fashionable Lady, 1873

Reverie, 1873

Preparing for the Ball, 1867

Head of Emma