Flora Lion (1876 – 1958)
Flora Lion studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London under John Singer Sargent and at the Académie Julian, Paris. She was known as a painter of portraits, landscape, genre and flower subjects.
Glossary
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Genre
In a specialised sense this term refers to the portrayal of everyday life, and refers to painting; more broadly it means the subject types covered by an artist.
The 17th Century French Academy decreed that there were five main genres an artist should study. These were History, Portrait, Genre, Landscape and Still Life. History was considered the most important as it portrayed Man in his most noblest endeavours and in his relationship with God; Still Life the lowest as it dealt with the moribund and innate.