Flavia Blois

Blois was born at Cockfield Hall at Yoxford in Suffolk into the Blois family. Her father was Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, a baronet, and her mother was Winifred Grace Blois née Kennard.^[1] Flavia Blois studied art in London, first at the Chelsea School of Art and then at the Euston Road School.^[2][3] She studied in Paris during 1939 and 1940 after which she turned away from portrait painting to depicting landscapes and street scenes.^[2] Blois painted many landscapes in the East Anglia countryside, usually working in oils in her studio from ink notes made outdoors.^[2] She exhibited at the Royal Academy on a regular basis and with both the London Group and the New English Art Club.^[3] During her career she had three solo gallery shows.^[2]

In 1948 Blois married Julian Snow who, in 1970, became a Life peer as Baron Burntwood, having previously been the Labour Party MP for Lichfield and Tamworth.^[1] Blois died in 1980 at Westminster in central London.^[1]