Emily Noyes Vanderpoel

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (June 21, 1842 – February 20, 1939) was an American artist, writer, and philanthropist.

[2] She was educated in private schools in New York, and later studied art under Robert Swain Gifford and William Sartain.

[5] She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

[5] Beyond her artistic career, Noyes Vanderpoel was also a philanthropist and an active participant in the Litchfield community.

She suggested that a marquetry cabinet that was designed with the same colours as a dead sparrow would be "balanced".

A color chart of a mummy case from 1902
A color chart of a mummy cloth from 1902