Emily Shanks, also known as Emiliya Yakovlevna Shanks (Russian: Эми́лия Я́ковлевна Шанкс; Moscow, 1 August 1857 – London, 13 January 1936), was an Anglo-Russian artist.
Her father, James Stewart Shanks, was a Moscow businessman, and her siblings include Mary Shanks, also an artist, and Louise Maude, translator of Tolstoy's fiction. She was a British citizen, but spent much of her life in Russia.
She went to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and was the first woman made a full member of the Russian Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions [1], a group who were reacting against formal conventions and who wanted to bring accessible art to a wider public than before.
Paintings by Shanks were included in the London Royal Academy's Summer Exhibitions of 1916 and 1918 [2], while she was living near Holland Park. Her death was registered in Kensington early in 1936.