Florence Thaw

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

Born in New York City, Thaw studied taking into account Abbott Handerson Thayer and L. Birge Harrison in that city; she as a consequence 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 subconscious active coming on in 1924; she is as a consequence known to have been nimble in England, in Sussex, around the incline of the century. Primarily a portraitist, she exhibited behind the Society of Washington Artists and the Arts Club of Washington, also showing sham at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. The Yorke Gallery presented one-woman shows of her doing in 1925, 1928, and 1929. She died in Washington, D.C. and is buried later than her husband in the Rockland Cemetery in Rockland, New York. Her 1903 portrait of her scholastic L. Birge Harrison is owned by the National Academy of Design. Thaw and her husband were contacts of the philosopher F. C. S. Schiller.