Florence Rowley Bristow: Née Florence White, Rowley Bristow was a talented amateur artist who had trained in the studio of Walter Sickert at Rowlandson House. In her monograph on Sickert, Sickert: Paintings and Drawings (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006), Wendy Baron briefly discusses Rowley Bristow and her reminiscences of her time in the master’s studio:
‘Mrs [Rowley] Bristow, as Florence White a pupil of the artist at Rowlandson House, told [me] that Sickert made many versions of this subject (figures watching or waiting while a funeral passes in the street below), altering the figure groupings at will’
Rowley Bristow was married to Walter Rowley Bristow, an eminent Harley Street surgeon after who the Rowley Bristow Clinic in Lyne, Surrey, is named. After his death in 1947, his widow Florence continued to serve as a keen trustee.