physical inactivity that considerably restricted her artistic output for her remaining years. Nevertheless between 1900 and 1903 she exhibited seven watercolours at the Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly in West London and at important regional galleries that included the City Art Gallery in Leeds where she sold four paintings between 1997 and 1899; the Manchester City Art Gallery where two exhibited pictures sold in 1901 and in Sheffield where she entered eleven paintings between 1900 and 1905 at the Sheffield Annual Exhibition. Her father who had opened an Art School in Bedford displayed one of her final paintings in a local exhibition in 1905. The painting was described thus ....An extremely pretty river scene, with a summery foreground, and a distance beautifully broken by elms and willows ... Stannard was described by her biographer Anthony J.Lester as able .... to capture the beauty and solitude of the Bedfordshire brooks and her ability in transmitting onto paper the glimmering rays of sunlight upon the leaves of elms and willows is quite remarkable ..... Two examples of her work Bromham Bridge and Mill and Newnham Bridge are on display in her home town at the Old Town Hall, Bedford. Emily Stannard died in Bedford on 31 March 1906 and was buried at Bedford Cemetery Biography Morgan, Richard (2018), Henry John Sylvester Stannard And His daughter Theresa Sylvester Stannard, Bedfordshire Local History Association, Lester, Anthony J (1984), The Stannards of Bedfordshire: A Family of Watercolour Painters Patronized by Royalty. England: Eastbourne Fine Arts. Lester, Anthony J (1976), Henry John Sylvester Stannard: His Life, Work and Family, Antique Collecting, Sept 1976 Notes Gallery (selected) References External links 1875 births 1906 deaths 20th-century English people English women artists 19th-century women artists English watercolourists 19th-century English painters Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours People from Bedfordshire