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Phyllis Emmerson (1 June 1892 - 24 January 1989) was a Scottish painter and lithographer. A member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists, she won the Lauder Prize in 1923.

Life
Phyllis's father was John Bolton Emmerson (19 August 1853 - 1911), born in North Shields, Northamptonshire. In the 1901 census he is with his family in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

Her mother was Kate Harvey (born c. 1856 in Leicester, Leicestershire).

Phyllis was born on 1 June 1892.

Her brother Cuthbert Lindsay Emmerson was born 2 February 1890.

Her sister Constance Mary Emmerson was born 11 December 1883.

In 1915 5 Beaufort mansions, East Stanley, London.

Phyllis married Arnold Wycombe Gomme in 1917 in Chelsea. Arnold Wycombe Gomme was a classical scholar and in 1911 became an Assistant Lecturer at Glasgow University. By 1946, he was a Professor of Ancient Greek at the same university. In marrying Arnold, Phyllis became enveloped in the Glasgow art scene.

They had a son Austin Gomme, known as Andor Gomme (1930 - 2009).

Art
In the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists watercolour exhibition of October 1921 she exhibited Valley Of The Alpheus and Convent Ton Asomaton, Athens.

In the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists exhibition of February 1923 she presented her Greek painting From The Peristyle Of The Parthenon and Hia And The God Ning depicting a Chinese legend.

In 1923 she exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy her work: Valley Of The Alpheus which was seen at the GLSA two years before.

At the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists exhibition of October 1923 she won the Lauder Prize with her painting: Prison Gates, Rhodes.

In 1924 she exhibited a black and white work Hassan, an Eastern study, at the GLSA. Later that same year she exhibited a portrait of Gladys Peto at the GLSA.

Emmerson exhibited some of her Greek work in the GLSA exhibition of 1925.

Death
She died in 1989.