Flora Lion (3 December 1878, London - 1958)[1] was an English portrait painter. She is known for her portraits of society figures, landscapes and murals.
Lion received formal training at the Royal Academy of Art School from 1895 to 1899 and the Académie Julian in Paris 1899-1900.[1]
During the First World War she was commissioned to paint factory scenes of the home front, two of which are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, London. Among her later commissions were a group portrait of a young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York flanked by two cousins; a portrait of the wife of the Spanish ambassador, for which she received the Silver Medal, 1921, from the Société des Artistes Français; the suffragette Flora Drummond (1936);[2] the celebrated conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1937); and, a second time in 1940, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, by then queen-consort to King George VI. She received the Gold Medal from the Société des Artistes Français in 1949.[1]