About Emma Herland
Lived 1855 – 1947 (aged 91). Emma Herland was a French painter.
Emma Herland (1856 – 1947) was a French painter.
Biography Herland was born in Cherbourg and became a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. She first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1879. She was a member of the Société des Artistes Français from 1886 onwards and won an honourable mention in 1901.
Her work Children Eating Soup in a Charity School was included in the book Women Painters of the World. Herland died in Quimper.
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Who was Emma Herland?
French painter (1855-1947)
When was Emma Herland born?
Emma Herland was born on 15 February 1855 in Cherbourg.
When did Emma Herland die?
Emma Herland died on 5 January 1947 in Quimper.
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Emma Herland was a painter.
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Emma Herland was French.
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