Career

She was criticised in Richard Polwhele"s The Unsex"d Females, for having painted the Frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin"s The Loves of the Plants: "There is a charming delicacy in most of the pictures of Mission Emma Crewe. Though I think, in her "Flora at play with Cupid," … she has rather overstepped the modesty of nature, by giving the portrait an air of voluptuousness too luxuriously melting." Education