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Mary Sargant-Florence

(1857-1954), Artist

Sitter in 5 portraits
Working in fresco and with tempera, Sargant-Florence was an artist and suffragette who created banners and badgers for the women's suffrage campaign. At the Slade School of Art she studied under the painter Alphonse Legros and became a member of the New English Art Club and Society of Painters in Tempera. After moving to America, she unexpectedly became a widower and experienced firsthand the discrimination endured by women, as she struggled to have her British nationality restored on her return to the UK. After founding the Women's Tax Resistant League, she published a book on militarism and feminism. One of her best known paintings shows her children Alix Strachey and Philip Florence painted in tempera, engrossed in a game of chess.

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Philip Sargant Florence and family
possibly by James Beaumont Strachey
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Mary Sargant-Florence and family
by Unknown photographer
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Mary Sargant-Florence; Alix Strachey
by Unknown photographer
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Mary Sargant-Florence; Alix Strachey
by Unknown photographer
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Mary Sargant-Florence; Alix Strachey
by Unknown photographer
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Anthony Sargant Florence (grandson)
Noel Sargant Florence (grandson)
Philip Sargant Florence (son)
Alix Strachey (n?e Sargant-Florence) (daughter)

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