Portraits
Emily produced many fine portraits and was a member of the Royal Miniature Society.
Opposite is a miniature of Charles Dodgson.
Emily drew a number of Russian refugees for illustrations in Charles Rowley’s book “Fifty Years of Work Without Wages.”
Prince Kropotkin was one of these.
She was a good friend of Charles Rowley and took this photograph of him with Frederic Shields in his garden.
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Famous quotes containing the word portraits:
“There are portraits and still-lifes
And the first, because ‘human’
Does not excel the second,”
—Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927)
“The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can’t hear yourself speak.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“... while I may paint in the tints or outlines of rocks and beaches, dawns and harbor, fleet and wharf, I never draw portraits of my neighbors or of my friends.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)