Read by Dallin Dean Cayabyab
Artistic Critique
Artistic Critique
Florence Carlyle was born at Galt, Ontario, in 1864 but moved to Woodstock at an early age.She studied under Paul Peel in Canada and T. Robert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre and Adolphe Bouguereau in Paris. After returning from Paris, she lived in London and Woodstock, Ontario. She became a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and was one of the first woman members of the Royal Canadian Academy. In 1899, she moved to New York, and to England in 1912. She exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and at the Salon in Paris. In 1893, she received a silver medal at the Chicago Exhibition. Her health was damaged doing war work, forcing her to retire in 1918. She died at Crowborough, Sussex, in 1923.
