c. 1870
Norfolk Museums
Born in 1843, the second child of Anthony Sands, a jobbing painter. She was taught by her father but her brother became her chief advisor. During her career, she exhibited portraits and female heads in oil supplementedby chalk drawings of the same subjects. Sandys attracted a considerable number of of commissions for child portraits.
Isn't this interesting. The woman in the picture really doesn't have a very nice expression on her face - and that is unusual in a painting . . . especially in pre-raphaelite ones where everything is usually lush and graceful.
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I hadn't really thought about that. Emma had a social conscience and I wonder now what she was trying to convey. Thanks for that thought.
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