Florence Phillips

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Giovanni Boldini : Lady Florence Phillips, oil on canvas, 1903

Lady Florence Phillips (born June 14, 1863 in Cape Town , † August 23, 1940 in Verigart near Somerset West ) was a South African benefactress and patron of the arts.

Life

Dorothea Sarah Florence Alexandra Ortlepp was the only daughter of the geologist and naturalist Albert Frederick Ortlepp and his wife Sarah Walker. She received her school education at the Rondebosch Academy in Cape Town and later in Bloemfontein . In 1885 Florence Ortlepp married in Cape Town the rich diamond mine owner , " Randlord " and politician Sir Lionel Phillips (1855-1936). The marriage, which all reports said was a happy one, had two sons and a daughter.

During the Second Boer War , the family lived in London and on their country estate Tylney Hall in Hampshire . During this time, Lady Phillips showed a keen interest in contemporary art and acquired numerous works, including William Orpen , William Rothenstein , Walter Sickert , Camille Pissarro , Paul Cézanne , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Paul Signac , Georges Seurat , Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley . Back in South Africa, Lady Phillips founded together with Sir Maximilian Michaelis and Sir Hugh Lane the first public gallery for modern art in Johannesburg , the later Johannesburg Art Gallery , as well as an art academy at the University of Cape Town .

Florence, Lady Phillips died at her country estate in Verigart and was buried next to her husband in Brixton Cemetery in Johannesburg.

gallery

literature

  • Jillian Carman: Uplifting the Colonial Philistine: Florence Phillips and the Making of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Wits University Press, Johannesburg 2007, ISBN 1-86814-436-4 .
  • Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, vol. 8 (1973), ISBN 0-625-00324-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Phillips, Florence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ortlepp, Dorothea Sarah Florence Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African benefactress and patron of the arts
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1940
Place of death Located near Somerset West