Emily Osborn: Nameless and Friendless
Emily Osborn: Nameless and Friendless
Emily Osborn: Nameless and Friendless
Emily Osborn: Nameless and Friendless
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Emily Osborn

Nameless and Friendless. “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, etc.” – Proverbs, x, 15, 1857

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Emily Osborn’s painting shows an orphaned young woman in mourning dress and her younger brother, who have travelled to sell her paintings to a dealer, who looks sourly at her work. Two men leer at her in the background, and the young girl gazes sadly at the ground. Another woman and young boy can be seen leaving the shop – but these parallel figures are in the enviable position of buyers. Highlighting the conditions faced by women trying to make a living in a hostile market, Osborn’s picture was making a consciously political statement. She exhibited the piece at the Royal Academy in the same year that the Society of Female Artists was formed with the aim of helping more women to exhibit and sell their artwork.
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  • Artist Emily Osborn
  • Artwork Nameless and Friendless. “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, etc.” – Proverbs, x, 15
  • Material FSC certified paper
  • Date of work 1857
  • Credit Original: Emily Osborn Nameless and Friendless. ‘The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, etc.’ – Proverbs, x, 15 1857 Oil paint on canvas 82.5 x 103.8 cm Tate. Purchased with assistance from Tate Members, the Millwood Legacy and a private donor 2009

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Emily Mary Osborn (1828–1925) was a British painter, and one of the most important artists associated with the campaign for women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Born in Kentish Town, Osborn grew up in West Tilbury, where her talent for painting was encouraged by her mother, herself an amateur painter. In 1842 she moved with her family back to London, where she began to study art at the Dickenson academy, and later at Leigh academy. She exhibited her first pieces at the Royal Academy in 1851 when she was 17, and would continue to do so for over 40 years, enjoying the patronage of Queen Victoria amongst others. Her earlier works were her most successful, including her most famous piece, Nameless and Friendless, 1857, which forms part of Tate’s collection. She was closely aligned with artist Barbara Bodichon’s Langham Place circle and the campaign for women’s rights, and petitioned the Royal Academy to open its schools to female students in 1859. She died in London, in the home that she shared with Mary Elizabeth Dunn, aged 97.
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