SEARLE, Emma Elizabeth
Emma Elizabeth Searle was born at Greenwich, London in 1846, eldest child of James Searle, corn dealer (1821-21 July 1912) and his first wife Emma Catherine née Dix (4 February 1824-1875), who married at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, London on 29 December 1845. In 1851, Emma was a 4-year-old, living at London Street, Greenwich with her parents, 30-year-old James and 27-year-old Emma and by 1861 they had moved to 9 Burney Street, Greenwich with the addition of a son Walter, born in 1856. In 1871, young Emma was working in her father's corn business and her mother was a schoolmistress, still at Burney Street and where her mother died in 1875, aged 52. Her father married secondly at St Alphage, Greenwich on 31 July 1877, Elizabeth Luxford (1843-1917). In 1881, Emma was a 35-year-old artist in painting, living at 163 Greenwich Road, Greenwich with her 60-year-old father, now a clerk at a brewery, her 39 stepmother Elizabeth and sibling brother Walter, also a brewery clerk. A member and exhibitor at the Ipswich Art Club 1883-1886, exhibiting from 163 Greenwich Road, Greenwich in 1881 five paintings, 'A Quiet Nook, Ferry Lane, Dorking' and watercolours 'A study in the London Hospital', 'Look, my Doggie', 'Alone' and 'Eltham Bridge, Kent', seven in 1882 'The Thames, Streatley', and watercolours 'Roman Catholic Church, Crooms Hill, Greenwich', 'Greenwich Hospital from Enderby's Wharf', 'Still Life', 'Blackheath Entrance to Greenwich Park', 'The Little Cricketer' and on ivory 'The Christmas Dinner' with her last exhibits at Ipswich in 1883 'Greenwich Road, Greenwich', 'A Landscape' and two designs for a Book Cover and a design for a Christmas Card. By 1891, Emma and her family had returned to live at 40 Burney Street, Greenwich where Emma was variously an artist or artist teacher of painting for the next twenty years and from where she exhibited at the Royal Academy. Emma Elizabeth Searle was of 40 Burney Street, Greenwich when she died at 17 The Grove, Blackheath, Kent on 8 February 1929, aged 82, she was unmarried.
Royal Academy Exhibits
from 40 Burney Street, Greenwich
1897 724 The Pulpit, St André's, Antwerp