Emma Black (painter)

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Emma Black, also known as Emma Keriman Mahomed, was a British nineteenth century painter. [1]

She was the sister of translator Constance Garnett, and of Clementina Black, a novelist and social reformer.

She was a resident of Brighton, and exhibited there in 1881. [2] She also exhibited her works, one of which was a portrait of the writer Dollie Radford, at the Royal Academy under her married name Emma Keriman Mahomed in 1883 and 1884. [1]

She married the Reverend James Dean Keriman Mahomed in September 1883. [3]

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