Emily Murray Paterson - Artist Info

About Emily Murray Paterson

  • Biography

    Emily Murray Paterson, R.S.W., S.W.A (1855–1934) was a Scottish artist, connected with the Glasgow School and member of the Society of Women Artists.
    Emily Paterson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1855. Her father, Duncan Wilkie Paterson SSC (1827-1911)[2] was a solicitor from Ayrshire. He was a partner of Lindsay & Paterson at 24 Dublin Street in Edinburgh. Her mother was Anne Fleming Stephen (1827-1909).

    Emily studied at the Edinburgh College of Art as well as in Paris and lived at Albyn Place, Edinburgh before moving to London in 1917.[5] She travelled widely between 1909 and 1934.


    Shortly after the end of World War One, she visited the former battlefields at Ypres in Belgium. Her watercolours of ruined churc...

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