Flavia Blois

The Right Honourable
The Lady Burntwood
Born
Flavia Ria Joan Blois

(1914-12-28)28 December 1914
Yoxford, Suffolk, England
Died28 March 1980(1980-03-28) (aged 65)
Westminster, London, England
Education
Known forPainting
Spouse
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(m. 1948)​

Flavia Ria Joan Blois, later Baroness Burntwood, (28 December 1914 – 28 March 1980) was a British landscape artist.[1]

Biography

Blois was born at Cockfield Hall at Yoxford in Suffolk into the Blois family. Her father was Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, a baronet, and her mother was Winifred Grace Blois née Kennard.[1] Flavia Blois studied art in London, first at the Chelsea School of Art and then at the Euston Road School.[2][3] She studied in Paris during 1939 and 1940 after which she turned away from portrait painting to depicting landscapes and street scenes.[2] Blois painted many landscapes in the East Anglia countryside, usually working in oils in her studio from ink notes made outdoors.[2] She exhibited at the Royal Academy on a regular basis and with both the London Group and the New English Art Club.[3] During her career she had three solo gallery shows.[2]

In 1948 Blois married Julian Snow who, in 1970, became a Life peer as Baron Burntwood, having previously been the Labour Party MP for Lichfield and Tamworth.[1] Blois died in 1980 at Westminster in central London.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "BLOIS, Flavia Ria Joan". Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  3. ^ a b Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.