Emily Heyward Drayton Taylor (April 14, 1860 – June 19, 1952) was an American miniature painter.

[1] She married neurologist Dr. John Madison Taylor in 1879.

One of her works, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a copy of a work by Edward Greene Malbone, a painting of the eye of Maria Miles Heyward Drayton, her paternal grandmother.

[2] Taylor was the founding president of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, serving from 1901 to 1951.

[2] Emily Drayton Taylor died on June 19, 1952, in Philadelphia at the age of 92.