[8] Sensing her daughter's artistic talent, Emily arranged for Florence to have private drawing and painting lessons with William Lees Judson.

[11] It was this exhibition that gave Florence widespread recognition as Princess Louise and her husband, the Marquis of Lorne purchased one of her paintings of white lilies on china.

[17] In 1893 she exhibited her painting Une Dame Hollandaise at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, where it "received favourable attention.

[21][22] The Montreal Gazette described this painting (now in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario)[14] as "a strong piece of work depicting a lover's quarrel", and praised its execution as "clear cut and decisive.

"[23] The last twenty years of her life were spent in Crowborough, Sussex, England, where she and her partner, Juliet Hastings, bought an English cottage they called "Sweet Haws".