Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (30 December 1856[1] – 26 January 1928) was a British painter of the late Victorian era,[2][3] who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects.

Her teachers there included Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who had the strongest influence on her later work, as well as Frank Dicksee and William Powell Frith.

[8] Rae and Normand travelled to Paris in 1890 to study at the Académie Julian with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.

Rae exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

Among her many other paintings in the classical vein, Eurydice Sinking Back to Hades (1886) won Honorable Mention at the 1889 International Exhibition in Paris and a medal at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.