Rosalie Emslie
Rosalie Emslie was a British artist known for her landscape and portrait paintings.Biography
Emslie was born in London into an artistic family. 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. Although born in London, the family home being in Poland Street in Westminster, for a time, from 1901, she lived in Otford in Kent with her mother and aunt. The younger Rosalie Emslie was privately educated before attending the Royal Academy Schools between 1913 and 1918. She went on to study in Spain, Italy and France. She exhibited on a regular basis at the Royal Academy and with the New English Art Club and the Society of Women Artists. She was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1922. 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.
