Florence Turner Blake

Florence Turner Blake (1873–1959) was an Australian artist and benefactor. She was also known professionally as Florence Turner Mofflin, Florence Turner Greaves and Florence Mofflin.

Early life The youngest of six children she was born as Florence Turner Blake Greaves on 26 October 1873 at Armidale, New South Wales to parents William Albert Braylesford Greaves and Annie Greaves, née Mackenzie. When she was about seven the family moved to Braylesford, in Bondi Road, Bondi. It is likely that she met Tom Roberts through Ashton. There are two portraits of Florence by Tom Roberts, Portrait of Florence (circa 1898) and a pastel, Miss Florence Greaves, drawn in 1898. she traveled to London where she studied at the Slade School, London between 1925 and 1929

In 1928 she dropped the name of her former husband by deed-poll and was known by the name Florence Turner Blake, in reference to her great-grandparents on her father's side, Thomas Turner and Barbara Blake.

She is best known for water-colour paintings on silk fans, especially Frivolers (1916) and Garden of Dreams (1920), in the collection of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, and The Silver Moon, in the National Gallery of South Australia.

Greaves Place in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named in her honour. Also, Mofflin Street, Chisholm in the Australian Capital Territory is named after her.