Emily Farmer

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Emily Farmer (1826 - 1905) was an English water-colourist and Victorian painter.

Her pictures were featured in many exhibitions in the mid-nineteenth century. Her painting Kitty's Breakfast is typical of her style. She was the sister of Alexander Farmer (1825-1869), who was also an artist.


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According to the Victoria and Albert Museum "Catalogue of Water Colour Paintings", Revised 1927, printed under the Authority of the Board of Education:

"Miss Emily Farmer, R.I.

"Born on 25th July 1826; was one of two daughters of John Biker Farmer of the East India Company's Service and his wife Frances Ann, daughter of William Churchill Frost. She was educated at home and received instruction in art from her brother Alexander farmer (d. 1869).

"In early life she painted miniatures, but she is best known for her groups of children and other genre subjects. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1847-50, and in 1854 was elected a Member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours (now the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours), with which she frequently exhibited until 1904. She died on 8th May 1905 at Portchester House, Portchester, where she resided for over fifty years and was buried in St Mary's Churchyard, Portchester".

The V&A Museum holds two of her paintings "In doubt", signed (Ref D.395-1905) and "Kitty's breakfast", signed and dated 1883 (Ref D.396-1905)

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