Florence Thaw (February 17, 1864 – March 5, 1940) was an American painter.
Born in New York City, Thaw studied with Abbott Handerson Thayer and L. Birge Harrison in that city; she also attended the Académie Julian in Paris.
[2] Primarily a portraitist, she exhibited with the Society of Washington Artists and the Arts Club of Washington, also showing work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.
The Yorke Gallery presented one-woman shows of her work in 1925, 1928, and 1929.
Her 1903 portrait of her teacher L. Birge Harrison is owned by the National Academy of Design.