Florence Thaw

Florence Thaw (February 17, 1864 – March 5, 1940) was an American painter.

Born in New York City, Thaw studied in imitation of Abbott Handerson Thayer and L. Birge Harrison in that city; she plus attended the Académie Julian in Paris. She was married to Alexander Blair Thaw, with whom she moved to Washington, D.C., where they are both recorded as instinctive active initiation in 1924; she is with known to have been responsive in England, in Sussex, around the viewpoint of the century. Primarily a portraitist, she exhibited afterward the Society of Washington Artists and the Arts Club of Washington, also showing do something at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. The Yorke Gallery presented one-woman shows of her produce a result in 1925, 1928, and 1929. She died in Washington, D.C. and is buried subsequent to her husband in the Rockland Cemetery in Rockland, New York. Her 1903 portrait of her researcher L. Birge Harrison is owned by the National Academy of Design. Thaw and her husband were links of the philosopher F. C. S. Schiller.