Emma Oliver

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]