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Figure painter, Painter, Portrait painter, Genre Painter, Miniature painter, Etcher, Mezzotintostecher

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    • ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (LONDON 1813-1842) The escape: a young girl with a bir
      Jul. 07, 2023

      ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (LONDON 1813-1842) The escape: a young girl with a bir

      Est: £12,000 - £18,000

      ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (LONDON 1813-1842) The escape: a young girl with a bird cage oil on canvas, unframed 29 7/8 x 24 3/4 in. (76 x 63 cm.)

      Christie's
    • ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (London 1813-1842 London) Portrait of James Jemmett.
      Nov. 03, 2021

      ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (London 1813-1842 London) Portrait of James Jemmett.

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      ELIZABETH EMMA SOYER (London 1813-1842 London) Portrait of James Jemmett. Black chalk and gray wash on cream wove paper. 245x202 mm; 9 1/2x7 3/4 inches. Provenance: Christie's, London; Covent Garden Gallery Limited, London; private collection, New York. At an early age, Soyer, née Jones, became a pupil of the Belgian painter François Simonau (1783–1859), who in 1820 had married her mother. She was an artistic prodigy and received relentless instruction from Simonau. Between 1823 and 1843 fourteen of her pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, thirty-eight at the British Institution and fourteen at the Suffolk Street Gallery.

      Swann Auction Galleries
    • Elizabeth Emma Soyer, née Jones (British, 1813-1842) Two young children with a b
      Jun. 04, 2021

      Elizabeth Emma Soyer, née Jones (British, 1813-1842) Two young children with a b

      Est: $20,000 - $30,000

      Elizabeth Emma Soyer, née Jones (British, 1813-1842) Two young children with a basket of flowers, 1836 Oil on canvas laid on canvas 28-3/8 x 36 inches (72.1 x 91.4 cm) Signed and dated upper right: E Jones / 1836 PROVENANCE: Private collection, Lewisville, Texas, acquired from a midwestern auction, 2019. The author of this lush painting of two children selling flowers (1836) was the British child prodigy, Elizabeth Emma Soyer (née Jones) (1813-1842), who flourished during the late Georgian and early Victorian period. During her short but eventful life (she died of complications during childbirth at age 29), she was celebrated both in England and on the Continent with the moniker "the English Murillo" owing to the remarkable characterizations she was able to achieve in her portraits and genre scenes. Like the 18th-century Spaniard to whom she was compared, and whose work was especially prized in Britain during her lifetime, Emma Jones Soyer produced some traditional portraits but devoted her brush primarily to images of hard-working peasants, tradespeople, and street urchins painted with a candor and sensitivity that resonated with quiet dignity. Her palette is deep and rich like Murillo's, and the forms beautifully drawn and modeled—all of which give the work a level of gravitas more akin to Old Master painting than Victorian imagery. Perhaps she even outdid Murillo in one regard: her work, while empathetic, tended to stay this side of sentimental. In the present work, for example, the young flower sellers engage the viewer directly with expressions that are open but not saccharine. Although she died young, the artist left behind a prolific output, a total of 403 paintings as recorded in her obituaries. To date, however, very few of her paintings have been traced either in collections within the United Kingdom, or in Europe where she also exhibited. That so many works seem to have nearly entirely vanished is a mystery that fans of her few extant efforts find baffling. Fortunately, some of her compositions are known through engravings and mezzotints made after them, both during her lifetime and afterwards, which served to popularize her work. (See prints after her paintings The English  Ceres and The Young Israelites in the British Museum, inv. nos. 2010,7081.5723 and 2010,7081.6440). These prints provide valuable visual clues to the nature of her achievement. Judging from them, and the few canvases, such as the present painting, which have surfaced on the art market, the artist's celebrity was certainly richly deserved. Born in London, Emma Jones lost her father when she was just four, but was raised by an extraordinarily attentive mother who spotted her daughter's precocity early, and lost no time providing her with an enriching education. As a young girl, through tutors, she gained fluency in both French and Italian, and when she showed musical inclinations, Mrs. Jones engaged no random music teacher but rather the French-born violin-virtuoso, pianist and composer, Jean Ancot (1779-1848), who was in England serving as pianist to the Duke of Sussex. Emma was such a gifted pianist that it seemed a foregone conclusion that she would choose a musical career. But once she began drawing, it became clear that the polymath had found her métier. Her mother engaged a Belgian portrait painter, François Simonau (1783-1859), himself a student of Baron Gros, who had opened a drawing and painting academy in London. Under Simonau's instruction, her talents blossomed to such a degree that he dedicated himself completely to her education. In 1820, he also became her step-father when he and her mother married. Emma became one of the youngest artists ever to exhibit at the Royal Academy when, in 1823, at the age of ten, her Watercress Woman was accepted for inclusion . By th

      Heritage Auctions
    • Emma Soyer Jones (1813-1842) The bird escaped The bird escaped
      Mar. 23, 2021

      Emma Soyer Jones (1813-1842) The bird escaped The bird escaped

      Est: €2,000 - €3,000

      Huile sur toile. Signé en bas à droite. Cadre de style Louis XV en bois sculpté et doré. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Louis XV style frame in carved and gilt wood.

      Brussels Art Auctions
    • Emma Jones - Nice is Nice 61 x 91cm
      Jun. 13, 2019

      Emma Jones - Nice is Nice 61 x 91cm

      Est: $200 - $300

      Emma Jones Nice is Nice oil on canvas 61 x 91cm signed and dated verso; Legge Gallery label verso

      Lawsons
    • Emma Soyer. Portrait of a Lady
      Mar. 20, 2018

      Emma Soyer. Portrait of a Lady

      Est: -

      SOYER,EMMA (1813 - 1842). "Retrato de dama". Óleo sobre lienzo. Firmado y fechado (1839) en el ángulo superior derecho. 74 x 59 cm

      Duran Arte y Subastas
    • SOYER,EMMA (1813 - 1842). "Retrato de dama". Óleo sobre lienzo. Firmado y fechado (1839) en el ángulo superior derecho. 74 x 59 cm
      Dec. 19, 2017

      SOYER,EMMA (1813 - 1842). "Retrato de dama". Óleo sobre lienzo. Firmado y fechado (1839) en el ángulo superior derecho. 74 x 59 cm

      Est: -

      SOYER,EMMA (1813 - 1842). "Retrato de dama". Óleo sobre lienzo. Firmado y fechado (1839) en el ángulo superior derecho. 74 x 59 cm

      Duran Arte y Subastas
    • Emma Soyer. Portrait of a Lady
      Jul. 20, 2017

      Emma Soyer. Portrait of a Lady

      Est: -

      SOYER,EMMA (1813 - 1842). "Retrato de dama". Óleo sobre lienzo. Firmado y fechado (1839) en el ángulo superior derecho. 74 x 59 cm

      Duran Arte y Subastas
    • Emma Soyer. Portrait of a Lady
      Apr. 27, 2017

      Emma Soyer. Portrait of a Lady

      Est: -

      SOYER,EMMA (1813 - 1842). Óleo sobre lienzo. Firmado y fechado (1839) en el ángulo superior derecho.

      Duran Arte y Subastas
    • Emma Jones (1813-1842)
      Nov. 11, 2008

      Emma Jones (1813-1842)

      Est: £600 - £800

      Emma Jones (1813-1842) Portrait of James Jemmett Esq. black chalk 9¼ x 7½ in. (23.5 x 19.1 cm.); with A pencil portrait of a gentleman facing to his left, by another hand (2)

      Christie's
    • Emma Jones (Madame Soyer) (1813-1871). La Grand
      Jul. 04, 2007

      Emma Jones (Madame Soyer) (1813-1871). La Grand

      Est: £700 - £900

      Emma Jones (Madame Soyer) (1813-1871). La Grand Mere a son Rouet, signed and inscribed on a label attached to the reverse of the frame, further inscribed with artists address Fitzroy Square, London, oilon canvas. 65 x 71cm.

      Bearne's
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