Flora Lion
(1878-1958), ArtistArtist of 10 portraits
Flora Lion was a portrait, landscape and genre painter and lithographer. She studied at St John's Wood School of Art (1894), the Royal Academy Schools (1895-9), and at the Académie Julian in Paris 1899-1900. She exhibited her work at the Royal Academy from 1900. Lion had a long career painting portraits of the distinguished and socially prominent, and also produced landscapes, murals and lithographs. During the First World War, she was commissioned to paint factory scenes of the home front.
by Flora Lion
pencil, 1912
NPG 3946
by Flora Lion
lithograph, circa 1912
NPG 3951
Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman
by Flora Lion
chalk, circa 1912
NPG 3973
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie
by Flora Lion
pencil and chalk, circa 1912
NPG 3972
by Flora Lion
lithograph, 1913
NPG 3950
by Flora Lion
lithograph, 1913
NPG 4102
Elizabeth Nina Mary Frederica ('Liza') Lehmann (Mrs Bedford)
by Flora Lion
lithograph, 1915
NPG 4118
by Flora Lion
lithograph, 1915
NPG 3949
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Deirdre Hopkins
29 April 2016, 18:57
Flora Lion used my mother and I as body substitutes in a couple of portraits painted in her Sydney close studio between 1949-52. My mother was Grace Joan Brooks a young working class woman born in 1920 had served in the ATS during the war,married to a soldier Norman Brooks who survived. I was their first born named Deirdre born in 1946.We lived in South Parade. We sat for her wearing the clothes of the portraits subjects,and required to take up a pose and hold it .