Miss Florence Harriet Fitzgerald (Bishop)
Other names: Florence Bishop
Born 1857
Died 17 January 1927
Active: 1881 - 1927
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, painter
Born in Brompton, London. She was the daughter of John Anster Fitzgerald (1819-1906), a painter of fairy pictures and other imaginative subjects, whose work is represented in Tate and the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Florence studied at the British Museum and the Royal Academy Schools. In 1889 she married the landscape painter Walter Follen Bishop (1856-1936). Florence continued to exhibit widely at the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham, Royal Society of British Artists, Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy and eight times at the Royal Academy (between 1887 and 1900). Florence showed sculpture during much of her career but paintings were an increasingly important part of her practice.
Wealth at death: £1,577 4s. 3d.
Probate date: 1 April 1927
Locations
Address 3 Mawson Row Chiswick London | View on map
1881
Address 233 Stanhope Street Hampstead Road London NW | View on map
1887 (Circa) - 1889 (Circa)
Address Springfield Beaconsfield Road Farnham | View on map
1891
Address 20 Myddleton Square Clerkenwell London | View on map
1901
Address Church Hill Shere near Guildford | View on map
1911
Address Scarsdale Studios Stratford Road London W8 | View on map
1927
Her address was Studio 5 at the time of her death in 1927.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1887 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
Exhibited 8 times, average 2 works per year (5 were paintings, all done in the last three years 1894, 1896, 1900, from Liverpool)
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Art Student'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
None, her husband Walter Follen Bishop 'Landscape Painter' neither employer or employed
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist' and her husband Walter Folllen Bishop 'Artist Sculp' [although he was not a sculptor] both working on own account at home
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist' and her husband Walter Follen Bishop 'Artist painter of pictures' both working on their own account
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
Class: RG 9; Piece: 29; Folio: 71; Page: 29; GSU roll: 542559
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 1350; Folio: 13; Page: 19; GSU roll: 1341328
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 1136; Folio: 79; Page: 10; GSU Roll: 6096246
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 254; Folio: 27; Page: 46
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN3061 RG78PN109 RD33 SD3 ED4 SN60
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Florence Harriet Fitzgerald
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1857
Registration District: Kensington
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a
Page: 94
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Florence Harriet Bishop
Probate Date: 1 Apr 1927
Death Date: 17 Jan 1927
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: London, England
Citing this record
'Miss Florence Harriet Fitzgerald (Bishop)', 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=msib7_1284384989, accessed 27 Feb 2021]
