Emma Sandys (born Mary Ann Emma Sands) (25 September 1841 – 21 November 1877) was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter.

[1] Emma Sandys was born in Norwich, where her father, Anthony Sands (1806–1883), gave her some early art lessons.

She was influenced by her brother Frederick Sandys (1829–1904), one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and his friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Her earliest dated painting is marked 1863, and she exhibited her works in both London and Norwich between 1867 and 1874.

[2] Her works were mainly portraits in both oil and chalk of children and of young women, often in period clothing, against backgrounds of brightly coloured flowers.