Elizabeth Weston Flower
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 16 June 1842
Place of birth: London
Date of death: 1920
Place of death: Middlesex
Category: painter
Identity:
Elizabeth Weston Flower was a flower painter. On 23 April 1862 she married the solicitor and collector Wickham Flower.
Life:
E. W. Flower was active as an artist between 1872 and 1873. In 1874/76 and 1881 she was living at the Old Swan House, Chelsea Embankment. She was friendly with Whistler, with whom she would dine [GUW #09631], and was present on 20 February 1885 at Whistler's Ten O'Clock Lecture, given at the Prince's Hall, Piccadilly [GUW #04084].
She owned Whistler's Nocturne in Blue and Silver y151. She also owned An Orange Note: Sweet Shop y264, which Whistler sought to borrow in 1892 for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Whistler and E. W. Flower's husband, Wickham Flower, were in correspondence in 1884, when he bought An Orange Note: Sweet Shop y264 and Note in Blue and Opal: The Sun Cloud y271. Mrs Flower was a collector and bought a lithograph by Whistler from the Fine Art Society in 1895.
Bibliography:
UK census 1881 and 1891, Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 [database on-line]
