Florence Turner Blake, sketches, 1894-1925 from the papers of Florence Turner Blake

PXA 6931

fonds

1894-1925

Graphic Materials, Drawings

458001

Drawings - 1 sketchbook - loose pencil sketches; 1 pen and ink sketch ; various sizes

Florence Turner Blake (1873-1959), artist and benefactor, was born on 26 October 1873 at Armidale, New South Wales, the daughter of William and Anne Greaves. On 30 April 1902 at St Luke's Anglican Church, Concord, Sydney, Florence married William Edward Kugelmann Mofflin. Although some of her works bear her married name, she divorced her husband in 1915. She later used her Christian name 'Blake' (after an ancestor) as her surname. Tom Roberts painting 'Portrait of Florence' (painted about 1898) depicted the profile of a winsome, stylish, young woman with a mass of fine, curly, dark hair. He also painted a portrait of her mother. Florence Blake died at Ryde 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, by far the largest bequest it had then received. Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition.

Pt.1 - Sketchbook of Florence Mofflin, Slade School, London, 1925
Pt.2 - Loose pencil sketches by Florence Blake, and one pen and ink sketch signed 'Flo 94'
Pt.3 - Pen and ink sketch by Geo. W. Lambert entitled 'When the drought breaks'