Florence Claxton b. c.1838

Also known as F. Claxton, Florence Farrington
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
19th century English painter, illustrator, engraver and feminist. Lived briefly Sydney in the 1850s and occasionally used Australian themes in her English newspaper illustrations. She had a satiric eye for the foibles of contemporary society.

Citations

  • Lennon, Jane (1995), 'Claxton, Florence’, Heritage (biography and #5 plate 181), plus Clayton additions.

  • Casteras, Susan P. (1992), '“The necessity of a name”: Portrayals and betrayals of Victorian women artists’, Gender and Discourse, ed. Antony H. Harrison and Beverly Taylor, New York, NY, USA.

  • Clarke, Patricia (1985), 'The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Clayton, Ellen C. (1876), 'English Female Artists’, London, England: Tinsley Brothers, vol 2, pp.44-46, 329.

  • Dunford, Penny (1984), 'A Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America since 1850’, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

  • Houfe, Simon (1981), 'The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914’, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.

  • Poovey, Mary (1989), 'The anathematized race: The governess and Jane Eyre’, Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England, London, England.

  • Yeldham, Charlotte (1984), 'Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France and England’, 2 vols, New York, NY, USA.

  • Information sourced from Peers, Juliet.

  • Rye, Maria (5 September 1862), '[letter]’, London Times.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions