Emma Black (painter)

For the Scottish footballer, see Emma Black (footballer).

Emma Black, also known as Emma Keriman Mahomed, was a British nineteenth century painter.[1]

She was the sister of translator Constance Garnett, and of Clementina Black, a novelist and social reformer.

She was a resident of Brighton, and exhibited there in 1881.[2] She also exhibited her works, one of which was a portrait of the writer Dollie Radford, at the Royal Academy under her married name Emma Keriman Mahomed in 1883 and 1884.[1]

She married the Reverend James Dean Keriman Mahomed in September 1883.[3]

  1. ^ a b Livesey, Ruth (2007). Socialism, sex, and the culture of aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press. pp. 50, 139. ISBN 9780197263983. OCLC 84150728.
  2. ^ Harris, Elree I. (1997). A gallery of her own : an annotated bibliography of women in Victorian painting. Scott, Shirley R. New York: Garland Pub. p. 229. ISBN 9780815300403. OCLC 36696419.
  3. ^ Smith, Helen (2017). The uncommon reader: a life of Edward Garnett. London: Random House. ISBN 9780224081818. OCLC 1009335597.