Emily Shanks

[1] The shop was financially successful and the Shanks family led a comfortable life allowing the daughters the time and means to engage with the Moscow intelligentsia.

[2][3] Emily commenced her studies at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture around 1882 where she was instructed by prominent members of the Peredvizhniki: Vasily Polenov, Vladimir Makovsky and Illarion Pryanishnikov.

Shanks formed a friendship with the Russian painter and designer Yelena Polenova and her brother Vasily Polenov.

[5] In 1891 Emily’s painting Older Brother (Старший брат) was accepted by the Peredvizhniki for exhibition.

[12] Shanks died on 13 January 1936, aged 78 years, at Holland Road, Kensington.