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Emily Farmer

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Over this period she lived at Portchester House, Hospital Lane, Portchester, Hampshire, where she died in 1905. She is buried nearby in St Mary's churchyard within
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to whose exhibitions she sent ninety-six paintings over a fifty-year period. She also showed works at the
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in 1847 and 1849, but from 1850 specialised in genre paintings, many of children in rustic surroundings.
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She was one of three children of John Biker Farmer, who worked for the
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Yeldham, Charlotte (2004). "Farmer, Emily (1826–1905)".
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Index

London
Portchester
Hampshire
watercolour painter
East India Company
Alexander Farmer
genre painter
miniatures
Royal Academy
Victoria and Albert Museum
New Society of Painters in Water Colours
Liverpool Academy
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
Portchester Castle


Long 1912
In doubt, Museum no. D.395-1905
Yeldham 2004
"Farmer, Emily" 
Lee, Sidney
Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/33080
UK public library membership
Categories
1826 births
1905 deaths
People from Portchester

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