Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Florence Austral (1892–1968), operatic soprano, achieved international renown during the 1920s.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Florence Ada Fuller (1867–1946), painter, was born in South Africa and migrated as a child to Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Gift of the University of Newcastle (Australia) 2007
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Gift of the artist 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lady Florence Packer 2004
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.
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2005
Gift of Chris Nielsen 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Kym Bonython, Florence Broadhurst, Frank Fenner, Henri Matisse, animated portraits and more.
