Emma Sophia Oliver RI, British 1819-1885- View of Windsor Castle from a distance with woodland and figures in foreground; oil on canvas, in feigned oval, signed, 27x37cm Provenance: Christie’s, London, 6 February 1981, lot 44 Note: The work may have been exhibited in Royal Academy Exhibition 1844 as ‘Windsor from Eton’, painting 811 in Miniatures collection by Mrs W Oliver. This is further supported by the 1876 text “English Female Artists” by Ellen Creethorne Clayton: “Mrs Oliver exhibited two landscapes at the Royal Academy in 1844 described as “Windsor Castle” and “Near Richmond, Yorkshire;” continuing to be an annual exhibitor there until the removal of the exhibition to Burlington House. The artist, as Emma Sophia Eburne, was born in London on 15 August 1819, daughter of William Eburne, a coachbuilder of Rathbone Place, London, and his wife Mary. She married on 21 September 1840, William Oliver. In 1849, she was elected a member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, and exhibited landscapes, both in water-colours and in oil, at the Royal Academy; British Institution; Society of British Artists and various provincial galleries including at Suffolk Fine Art Association at Ipswich in 1850 ('Farm Yard near Lanbbedr, North Wales'). After the death of her husband in 1853, she married again at Kensington, London in 1855, John Sedgwick, a solicitor of Watford, Hertfordshire, but continued to follow her profession in her first husband's name until her death. Examples of her work are held by the Victoria and Albert museum. She was also known as Mrs William Oliver, Emma Eburne, Emma Sedgwick, and Emma Oliver-Sedgwick.