Emma Crewe

Emma Crewe
Miss Emma Crewe and Miss Elizabeth Crewe by John Dixon after Sir Joshua Reynolds
Born 1780 (1780)
Died 1850 (aged 69–70)
Nationality British
Emma Crewe, "Flora at Play with Cupid." Frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants

Emma Crewe (1780–1850)[1] was a "gifted" amateur artist. Along with Diana Beauclerk (1734–1808) and Elizabeth Templetown (1747–1823), she contributed designs in "Romantic style" to Josiah Wedgwood for reproduction in his studio in Rome.[2] She was the daughter of John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe.[3]

Crewe was criticised in Richard Polwhele's The Unsex'd Females, for having painted the Frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants: "There is a charming delicacy in most of the pictures of Miss Emma Crewe; though I think, in her "Flora at play with Cupid," … she has rather overstepped the modesty of nature, by giving the portrait an air of voluptuousness too luxuriously melting."[4]

Family

She married in 1809 Foster Cunliffe-Offley.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Miss Emma Crewe and Miss Elizabeth Crewe". Yale Center for British Art. The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Reilly, Robin. "Wedgwood, Josiah (1730–1795)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28966. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ Cowper, William; King, James; Ryskamp, Charles (1986-12-04). The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Prose 1756-c. 1799 and cumulative index. Clarendon Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780198126904.
  4. ↑ Richard Polwhele, The Unsex'd Females: A Poem, Addressed to the Author of the Pursuits of Literature. London: Printed for Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. 1798. (Etext, UofVirginia)
  5. ↑ Pine, L. G. (1972). The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms. London: Heraldry Today. p. 89. ISBN 0900455233.


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