Emma Sillett
Emma Sillett (baptised 21 February 1802 – 27 January 1880) was a British painter, known for her flower paintings.
Biography
[edit]Sillett grew up in Norwich and was one of the two surviving children, three siblings having died as infants, of Ann Banyard and the painter James Sillett.[1][2] Emma Sillett was taught painting by her father and would eventually assist him with his art teaching and adopted a similar style of painting to his.[1][2] She was a highly competent flower painter in her own right and between 1813 and 1833 exhibited some 48 paintings with the Norwich Society of Artists.[1] Emma and her brother lived together in Norfolk where she died in 1880. Norwich Museum and Art Gallery hold examples of her paintings.[3]
Further reading
[edit]- Josephine Walpole (1997). Art and Artists of the Norwich School. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-261-5.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison, ed. (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 50 (Sharp-Smiles). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861406-3.
- ^ a b Josephine Walpole (2006). A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650-1950. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-504-5.
- ^ "Sillett, Emma in Benezit Dictionary of Artists". Oxford Index. 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2019.