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Tom ROBERTS | Portrait of Florence

Tom ROBERTS
England 1856 – Kallista 1931 AD
Australia from 1869; England, Europe 1881- 85, 1903-23

Portrait of Florence [Florence Greaves] c. 1898 , oil on canvas on paperboard
66.6 (h) x 38.7 (w) cm
Not signed. Not dated. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Bequest of Florence Turner Blake, 1959

Roberts produced two portraits of Florence Greaves (1873–1959), known later by her married name Florence Turner Blake. She was an artist and one of Julian Ashton’s first students at his Sydney Art School, as well as a former pupil of Roberts. She exhibited with the New South Wales Society of Artists in Sydney. She was the daughter of W.A.B. Greaves who owned Newbold station, north of Grafton in New South Wales, where Roberts painted A mountain muster in 1897.