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Florence Pash

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Florence Pash Humphrey Holland
Portrait of Florence Pash, 1897 by Walter Sickert
Born
Florence Pash

1862 (1862)
London, United Kingdom
Died1951 (aged 88–89)
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting
Spouses
Albert Alexander Humphrey
(m. 1898⁠–⁠1917)
C. T. Holland
(m. 1923⁠–⁠1927)

Florence Pash Humphrey Holland (1862–1951) was a British portrait painter. She is known for running an art school with Walter Sickert in the mid-1890s.

Biography

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Pash was born in London in 1862.[1] She exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts. Pash exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2]

She ran a private art school in Sloane Street with the help of Walter Sickert.[1][3]

She was a portraitist and was also the model for several notable artist including Sickert, Charles Conder, E. J. Sullivan, and Jacques-Émile Blanche.[3]

She married Albert Alexander Humphrey in 1898 and was widowed in 1917. In 1923, she married C. T. Holland[3][2] She signed her works Florence Pash, Mrs Florence P. Humphrey and Mrs A. A. Humphrey.[4]

Pash died on 25 June 1951.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Pash, Florence 1863-1951". Artist Biographies Ltd. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Baron, Wendy; Sickert, Walter (2006). Sickert: Paintings and Drawings. Yale University Press. p. 198. ISBN 0300111290.
  4. ^ "Florence Pash". Bonhams. Retrieved 14 August 2018.