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Portrait of a young boy in a red velvet suit
Painting ID:: 92582
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Alfred Edward Emslie
Portrait of a young boy in a red velvet suit
Date Unknown
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 92.1 X 71.1 cm (36.3 X 28 in)
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Alfred Edward Emslie (1848 London -1918) was an English genre and portrait painter, and photographer, living at The Studio, 34, Finchley Road, N. W.
He was the son of the engraver, John Emslie, and brother of John Phillipps Emslie, the figure painter. Married to miniature painter Rosalie M. Emslie, they had a daughter, Rosalie Emslie, who became a figure, portrait and landscape painter. Emslie turned increasingly to portraiture later in life. He had a great passion for the Orient, and spent three months exploring Japan. He was a elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1888 and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1892.
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