Emily Farmer (25 July 1826, London - 8 May 1905, Portchester) was an English watercolour painter. Events 285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Events 589 - Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo 1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Portchester is a small Suburb to the northwest of Portsmouth, England. Watercolor ( US) or Watercolour ( UK) (and "aquarelle" in French is a Painting method
She was one of three children of John Biker Farmer, who worked for the East India Company, and his wife Frances Ann (nee Frost). The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or She was home-educated and instructed in art by her brother Alexander Farmer, a genre painter. Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life
She initially painted miniatures, exhibiting two at the Royal Academy in 1847 and 1849, but from 1850 specialised in genre paintings, many of children in rustic surroundings. A portrait miniature is a miniature Portrait painting usually executed in Gouache or watercolor. This article refers to an art institution in London For other meanings of Royal Academy see Royal Academy (disambiguation. Kitty's Breakfast (1883), a picture of a girl in a cottage kitchen pouring a saucer of milk for a kitten, is typical of her style. This, along with In doubt (1881), is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design housing a permanent collection [1]
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. The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI initially called the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, is one of the societies in the Federation of British She also showed works at the Liverpool Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. The Liverpool Academy of Arts was founded in April 1810 as a regional equivalent of the Royal Academy, London
Over this period she lived at Portchester House, Portchester, Hampshire, where she died in 1905. She is buried in St Mary's churchyard, Portchester.
References
- B. S. Long, "Farmer, Emily (1826–1905)", rev. Charlotte Yeldham, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Aug 2007
- ^ In doubt, Museum no. D.395-1905, V&A collections online
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