Emma Sophia Oliver née Eburne later Emma Sedgewick, (15 August 1819 – 15 March 1885) was a British landscape painter.

Biography

Oliver was born in London, being the daughter of Mary and William Eburne, a coach-builder from

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. In September 1840 she married the painter William Oliver and the couple regularly took painting tours of Britain and Germany. Emma Oliver exhibited watercolours and oil paintings from these tours at the

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in London, at the

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and with the Society of British Artists. In 1849 she was elected a member of the

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. William Oliver died in 1853 and his widow remarried in, or around, 1856 a John Sedgewick but continued to exhibit works as Oliver until her death at

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in 1885. Her later works included Rhine landscapes and scenes of Venice. The

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in London holds examples of her work.

References

External links

Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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