Emma Sophia Oliver née Eburne later Emma Sedgewick, (15 August 1819 – 15 March 1885) was a British landscape painter. [1]
Oliver was born in London, being the daughter of Mary and William Eburne, a coach-builder from Rathbone Place. [2] In September 1840 she married the painter William Oliver and the couple regularly took painting tours of Britain and Germany. [3] Emma Oliver exhibited watercolours and oil paintings from these tours at the Royal Academy in London, at the British Institution and with the Society of British Artists. [2] [1] In 1849 she was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. [2] William Oliver died in 1853 and his widow remarried in, or around, 1856 a John Sedgewick but continued to exhibit works as Oliver until her death at Great Berkhamsted in 1885. [2] [1] Her later works included Rhine landscapes and scenes of Venice. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds examples of her work. [4]