Emma Herland Explained

Emma Herland
Birth Date:16 February 1856
Birth Place:Cherbourg
Death Place:Quimper
Nationality:French

Emma Herland (1856 – 1947) was a French painter.

Biography

Herland was born in Cherbourg and became a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. She first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1879. She was a member of the Société des Artistes Français from 1886 onwards and won an honourable mention in 1901.[1]

Her work Children Eating Soup in a Charity School was included in the book Women Painters of the World.[2] Herland died in Quimper.

Notes and References

  1. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00086482 Emma Herland
  2. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h/39000-h.htm Women Painters of the World