Rosalie Emslie | |
Birth Date: | 26 January 1891 |
Birth Place: | London, England |
Nationality: | British |
Education: | Royal Academy Schools |
Known For: | Painting |
Rosalie Emslie (26 January 1891 – 1977) was a British artist known for her landscape and portrait paintings.
Emslie was born in London into an artistic family.[1] Her grandfather was the engraver John Emslie while her father was the artist Alfred Edward Emslie and her mother was the noted miniature painter Rosalie M. Emslie.[2] Although born in London, the family home being in Poland Street in Westminster, after 1901 she lived for a time in Otford in Kent with her mother and aunt.[3] The younger Rosalie Emslie was privately educated before attending the Royal Academy Schools between 1913 and 1918.[4] She went on to study in Spain, Italy and France.[1]
Emslie exhibited on a regular basis at the Royal Academy and with the New English Art Club and the Society of Women Artists.[1] She was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1922.[4] Emslie also exhibited in America and Italy. For a time she lived in Petersfield in Hampshire and then in Reigate with the artist Florence May Asher.[1]