Florence MacKubin

Florence MacKubin (or Mackubin) (c. 1857 – 1918) was an American portrait painter in miniature, pastel, and oil colors. She painted portraits of prominent people in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as several famous copies of portraits, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, the London Academy, and the National Academy, New York.

Early life

Florence MacKubin was born in about 1857 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, while her parents, Charles Nicholas and Ellen Marietta (Fay) MacKubin, were spending a year abroad. Her father died in 1863, after which her mother returned to Europe with the children.

Education MacKubin studied drawing in Florence, Italy. She then studied at Les Ruches, a Protestant school at Fontainbleau under M. Lainé.

Career Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland. MacKubin made paintings of her ancestors, the first and second Barons Baltimore, based upon originals owned by Sir William Eden. The Board of Public Works of Maryland appointed her to make copies of portraits of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore and Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. For the Board she also painted a copy of Warwick Castle's famous Van Dyke portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, for whom Maryland is named. In 1897 she won the bronze medal and diploma at the Tennessee Exposition. Her life-sized portrait of Cardinal Gibbons was exhibited in 1903 in Baltimore and in 1904 at the St. Louis Exposition.

Personal life MacKubin was a member of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

She died February 2, 1918.