Florence Turner Blake
Florence Turner Blake | |
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Armidale, New South Wales, Australia | |
Died | 8 April 1959 Ryde, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 85)
Education | Sydney Art School |
Spouse | William Edward Kugelmann Mofflin (1902–1915) |
Florence Turner Blake (1873–1959) was an Australian artist and benefactor. She was also known professionally as Florence Turner Mofflin, Florence Turner Greaves and Florence Mofflin.
Early life
The youngest of six children she was born as Florence Turner Blake Greaves on 26 October 1873 at
Career
Florence Greaves was one of Julian Ashton's first students at his Sydney Art School[2] It is likely that she met Tom Roberts through Ashton. There are two portraits of Florence by Tom Roberts, Portrait of Florence (circa 1898)[3] and a pastel, Miss Florence Greaves, drawn in 1898.[2]
In April 1902, Florence married William Edward Kugelmann Mofflin at St Luke's Anglican Church, Concord, Sydney.[1] Although some of her works bear her married name, she divorced her husband in 1915.[1]
Following her father's death in 1925
In 1928 she dropped the name of her former husband by deed-poll and was known by the name Florence Turner Blake, in reference to her great-grandparents on her father's side, Thomas Turner and Barbara Blake.
She is best known for water-colour paintings on silk fans, especially Frivolers (1916)[6] and Garden of Dreams (1920), in the collection of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, and The Silver Moon, in the National Gallery of South Australia.[1]
Benefactor
Florence Blake died at Ryde, New South Wales on 8 April 1959 and was cremated. She left almost the whole of her estate, valued for probate at 54,214 pounds, to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the largest bequest it had received up until that time.[1][5][7]
Greaves Place in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named in her honour.[8] Also, Mofflin Street, Chisholm in the Australian Capital Territory is named after her.[9]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Waterhouse, Jill (1993). "Blake, Florence Turner (1873–1959)". 'Blake, Florence Turner (1873–1959)', Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7347-6371-6
- ^ "Art Gallery of New South Wales: Portrait of Florence". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "DEATH OF CAPTAIN GREAVES". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 27, 154. New South Wales, Australia. 15 January 1925. p. 10. Retrieved 9 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b "Florence Turner Blake b. 26 October 1873". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "SOCIETY OF ARTISTS". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 24, 613. New South Wales, Australia. 24 November 1916. p. 3. Retrieved 10 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales. No. 103. New South Wales, Australia. 11 September 1959. p. 2815. Retrieved 9 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "National Memorial Ordinance 1928 Determination of Nomenclature Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928 Determination of Nomenclature". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977 - 2011). 31 August 1988. p. 1. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Schedule 'B' National Memorials Ordinance 1928–1972 Street Nomenclature List of Additional Names with Reference to Origin: Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special (National: 1977–2012) – 8 Feb 1978". Trove. p. 13. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
Further reading
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 261.
- Campbell, Jean. Australian Watercolour Painters: 1780 to the Present Day. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1989. Page 288.