Emily Jackson

Emily Nevill Jackson (1861–1947), also listed as Emily Nevill Jackson née Gatliff, was an English journalist and decorative-arts historian. Reference records and museum listings identify her especially with the study of silhouettes, the distinctive profile portraits that became a major collecting and research interest in Britain and America.

Her best-known book is The History of Silhouettes (1911), a work that helped document the art form's makers, methods, and cultural setting. Surviving catalog and collection records also connect her with writing on handmade lace and with later silhouette reference works, showing a long-standing interest in craftsmanship, connoisseurship, and the history of domestic and decorative art.

Jackson's work still appears in library, museum, and archive collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Royal Collection. Those records suggest a scholar who helped preserve subjects that might otherwise have been treated as minor arts, and who made them accessible to later collectors, curators, and readers.