Florence Sarah Stern
Born 1868
Died 1952 (Presumed)
Active: 1898 - 1923
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, silversmith
Born in Birmingham. She was the daughter of German parents. Her father was Moritz Stern (born c.1837 in Germany), a general merchant. Florence studied at Birmingham Municipal School of Art in Birmingham in the 1890s. She subsequently worked as a silversmith in Birmingham until c.1923.
She participated in the annual exhibitions of the Society of Women Artists in London in 1906 and 1909 (showed with Gertrude Connolly), and 1911. Stern also exhibited in the Autumn exhibitions of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in Birmingham in 1898, 1903, 1905, 1907 1908 and 1909, and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 1902.
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Works
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Ploughing
1898 (Presumed)
Case of Gold and Silver Work
1903 (Presumed)
Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery
1905 (Presumed)
Case of Silver and Gold Work
1907 (Presumed)
Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery
1908 (Presumed)
Locations
Address Richmond Hill Road Edgbaston Birmingham | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Address 241 Bristol Road Edgbaston Birmingham | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)
Address 124 Edmund Street Birmingham | View on map
1909 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Seventy-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1898
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Seventy-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1905
'Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery '
Exhibited at The Seventy-Seventh Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1903
'Case of Gold and Silver Work'
Exhibited at The Eighty-First Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1907-1908
'Case of Silver and Gold Work '
Exhibited at The Eighty-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1908-1909
'Case of Gold and Silver Jewellery '
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
Case containing silver buckle, with turquoise (£2 2s.); Silver Pendant, with opals (£1 11s. 6d.); Lace Pin, with opal (17s. 6d.); Lace Pin, with opal (17s. 6d.); Silver Brooch, with opal (£1 5s.); Silver Brooch, with turquoise and opal (£1 5s.); Silver Scalf Pin, with opal (£1 1s.); Silver Spoon (17s. 6d.).
Exhibited at Royal Society of Artists Birmingham Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1909
1909
Exhibited five jewellery objects: p. 12 (Case 3, N1-5), and two silver cady spoons: p. 18 (Case 7, Q1-2).
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Art Craftsman Sculp.' worker
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist Crafts Woman' business - Metal Work, own account
Sources
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 2954 folio 110 page 39
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 2814; Folio: 110; Page: 13
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN17915 RG78PN1093 RD383 SD3 ED5 SN77
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Florence S Stern
Birth Date: abt 1868
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1952
Age at Death: 84
Registration District: Watford
Inferred County: Hertfordshire
Volume: 4b
Page: 282
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Florence Sarah Stern
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1868
Registration District: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 6d
Page: 190
Royal Society of Artists Birmingham Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1909
1909
pp. 12, 19
Citing this record
'Florence Sarah Stern', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1202902477, accessed 09 Jun 2023]