Emma Mary Sargant Florence (21 July 1857 – 14 December 1954) was a British painter of figure subjects, mural decorations in fresco and occasional landscapes in watercolour and pastel.
[citation needed] She studied in Paris under Luc-Olivier Merson, and, at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros.
[1] They had two children: Philip Sargant Florence, the economist, and Alix Strachey, the psychoanalyst and translator of Freud.
Her frescoes at Oakham School were commissioned by the headmaster, her brother, Walter Lee Sargant, and illustrate the Arthurian story of Gareth.
[4] She was a suffragist, a supporter of the Women's Tax Resistance League, and a member of the committee for the Hague Peace Congress of 1915.