Background
Born in Galt, Ontario, she was raised in Woodstock, Ontario, where her father, William Carlyle, was the county inspector of schools.
Born in Galt, Ontario, she was raised in Woodstock, Ontario, where her father, William Carlyle, was the county inspector of schools.
William"s uncle (and Florence"s great-uncle) was the Scottish historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. And William was said by a contemporary writer to have inherited "much of the cleverness and the abstraction" of his celebrated forebear. But it was Florence"s mother who, sensing her daughter"s art talent, arranged for an art teacher from New York City to provide lessons in an art studio set up to encourage her talents.
In 1893 she exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy, and three years later she returned to Canada.
In 1899, she established a studio in New York City. Florence Carlyle died at Crowborough in the spring of 1923.
Most of her work is in the collection of the Woodstock Art Gallery in Woodstock, Ontario.