Rosalie M. Emslie

Rosalie Maria Emslie (née Watson), sometime Mrs. A. E. Emslie (12 March 1854 – 8 January 1932) was a British painter of miniature portraits.

Rosalie M. Emslie
Born	12 March 1854 St Pancras, London, England
Died	8 January 1932 (aged 77) Otford, Kent, England
Nationality	United Kingdom

Emslie was born in London and became proficient at watercolour painting and attended the Royal Academy Schools.[1] She worked in London where she met and married her husband, the painter Alfred Edward Emslie. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New Water-Colour Society and the Salon de la Société Nationale from 1888 to 1912.[2] Her miniatures are in various collections, most notably the Victoria and Albert Museum that holds her self-portrait, and the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers.[3]

Emslie died in Otford, Kent. Her daughter, Rosalie Emslie, also became a painter.

References

1. Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
2. Rosalie M. Emslie in Bénézit
3. Self-portrait record in the V&A

External links

• Emslie, R. M. (Mrs. A. E.), Otford, Sevenoaks--1396, 1397, 1398, 1399, 1400, 1401, 1402 listed in the catalog of the exhibition of The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts MDCCCC : the one hundred and thirty-second, 1900
• Three works mentioned by Rosalie M. Emslie, in the "Watercolour Room" of the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1911