Angela Mary Flowers was a British gallerist who founded Flowers Gallery, a commercial art gallery that today operates in London, New York City, and Hong Kong.
10 Facts About Angela Flowers
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Angela Flowers then went to Westonbirt School in Kent, followed by Wychwood School in Oxford and a diploma at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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Angela Flowers later worked as an au pair in Paris.
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In 1952, aged 19, she met fashion and portrait photographer Adrian Angela Flowers, marrying him seven weeks later.
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Angela Flowers's husband began taking pictures of the artworks and artists for catalogues and together they began collecting art, with a particular focus on emerging British artists.
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Angela Flowers Gallery opened in central London in 1970 in an attic of the Artists' International Association in Lisle Street.
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In 1988, Angela Flowers moved the gallery to an industrial building in the Hackney district of east London, later returning to central London by opening a second gallery in Cork Street.
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Angela Flowers expanded internationally in 1997, opening a US gallery in Los Angeles, then moving it to New York in 2003.
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In 1970, Angela Flowers met the writer and business journalist Robert Heller.
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Angela Flowers and Robert had a daughter, Rachel Heller, born on 15 September 1973 with Down's syndrome.