Emma Herland

Emma Herland
Born(1856-02-16)February 16, 1856
Cherbourg
DiedJanuary 5, 1947(1947-01-05) (aged 90)
Quimper
NationalityFrance
Children Eating Soup in a Charity School, 1901

Emma Herland (1856 – 1947) was a French painter.

Biography

Herland was born in Cherbourg and became a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. She first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1879. She was a member of the Société des Artistes Français from 1886 onwards and won an honourable mention in 1901.[1]

Her work Children Eating Soup in a Charity School was included in the book Women Painters of the World.[2] Herland died in Quimper.

References
  1. Emma Herland in Bénézit
  2. Women Painters of the World on Project Gutenberg


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