Emma Soyer reidentified at the Rollins Museum of Art

September 15 2025

Image of Emma Soyer reidentified at the Rollins Museum of Art

Picture: Rollins Museum of Art

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

The Plymouth art dealer Dominic Sanchez-Cabello has written the following blog on a painting by Emma Soyer which has been reidentified in the Rollins Museum of Art in Florida (initially spotted carrying the wrong attribution by AHN's very own Bendor Grosvenor). The rediscovery is exciting as it transpires that Soyer's Young Bavarians was one of the pictures the artist's widower Alexis attempted to tried to leave to the National Gallery in London before his death in 1858. Click on the link to read the full story.


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