Florence Wolf Gotthold (October 3, 1858 – August 17, 1930) was an American painter. A Venetian Lady by Florence W

Born Florence Wolf in Uhrichsville,

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, Gotthold was the daughter of prominent attorney

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; with her parents she moved to

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in 1862. Her teachers included R.R. Fritz,

Harry Siddons Mowbray Harry Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 – 1928) was an American artist. He executed various painting commissions for J.P. Morgan, F.W. Vanderbilt, and other clients. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 1902–1904. Biog ...

, Henry G. Dearth, and Max Weyl. She moved to

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in 1898; she summered at

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, and exhibited work at the Yorke Galleries in Washington. She was a member of the Greenwich Society of Artists. In 1878 she married Frederick Gotthold. From the mid-1890s to the mid-1920s she showed work at the

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, the

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. She kept a studio in New York City until at least 1925; she died at her summer home, in Wilton,

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