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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon PHILLIPS, Lady Florence Born: 1863 06 14 Died: 1940 08 23 Patron Dorothea Sarah Florence Alexandra, Lady Phillips (née Ortlepp) was a South African art patroness and promoter of the local arts. She was married to Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st Baronet, a mining magnate and politician and was known by one of her middle names, Florence. Lady Phillips died at her home Vergelegen at the age of 77. Extracted from Wikipedia. Listings of Lady Florence Phillips on this website She is mentioned in the notes for Crestlands as being the instigator who got MARSHALL commissioned to do the design of the house. In the notes on EMLEY it states how she organized the Arts & Crafts Exhibition at Milner Park in about 1905 for which EMLEY was a judge. She was central to getting the Johannesburg Art Gallery funded, donations of works made, she herself being a benefactor, and having LUTYENS appointed as architect. She worked behind the scenes to get the Old Town House in Cape Town restored and have Sir Max Michaelis donate the collection which is housed there. She was instrumental in having both Martin Melck House and Koopmans De Wet House bought and restored and furnished. She worked behind the scenes to get SOLOMON appointed as architect to the University of Cape Town. She was actively engaged in the rebuilding and refurbishing of the Vergelegen House and estate. She was instrumental in the establishment of an Art School in Johannesburg. Books citing PHILLIPS Gutsche, Thelma. 1966. No Ordinary Woman: The life and times of Florence Phillips. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pp All Potgieter, DJ (Editor-in-chief). 1973. Standard Encyclopaedia of South Africa [SESA] Volume 8 Mus-Pop. Cape Town: Nasou. pp 524