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Florence Broadhurst
Biography
Florence Broadhurst (1899-1977), designer, grew up in rural Queensland, where she won a singing competition in 1915 and performed regularly in various towns.
2 portraits in the collection
Portrait of Florence Broadhurst, 1968
Joshua Smith
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2007
Florence Broadhurst, 1975
Lewis Morley
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Be bold
Magazine article by Katherine Russell, 2007
The name of Florence Broadhurst, one of Australia’s most significant wallpaper and textile designers, is now firmly cemented in the canon of Australian art and design.
Florence Austral
Biography
Florence Austral (1892–1968), operatic soprano, achieved international renown during the 1920s.
1 portrait in the collection
Lady Florence Packer
Biography
Lady Florence Packer (1915-2012) was born in Paris to Edmond Porges, a major in the British Army, and his Russian wife Marie-Mathilde Brodsky.
1 portrait in the collection
Florence Austral, c. 1930
Howard Barron
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the University of Newcastle (Australia) 2007
Dame Annie Florence Cardell-Oliver DBE
Biography
Dame Annie Florence Cardell-Oliver DBE (1876–1965), politician, grew up in Melbourne before marrying David Sykes Boyd, a wool buyer, and returning with him to England.
1 portrait in the collection
Lady Packer, 1968
Cecil Beaton
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lady Florence Packer 2004
Lady Flo, 2011
by Russell Shakespeare
Image
Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett, c. 1905
Florence Ada Fuller
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2005
Florence Cardell-Oliver, n.d.
Broothorn Studios
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper laid on photography studio backing board
Gift of Chris Nielsen 2016
Pretty in peach
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2008
It's remarkable that the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond has produced two of Australia's most successful opera singers. Three decades apart, but within a short distance of each other, both Helen Porter Mitchell and Florence Wilson were born.
Charles Conder, Stella Maris Condor and Florence Humphrey at les Petites Dalles, Normandy, 1902
H. Walter Barnett
Portrait, platinum photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Harold Cazneaux, 1919
Florence Milson, Harold Cazneaux
Portrait, bromoil photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Portrait 25
September - November 2007
Magazine
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Kym Bonython, Florence Broadhurst, Frank Fenner, Henri Matisse, animated portraits and more.