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American artist and socialite

Flora Payne Whitney, also known as Flora Whitney Miller (July 27, – July 18, ), was an American artist and socialite,^[1] art collector, and patron of the arts.

Early life

Flora Payne Whitney was born on July 27, , and raised in Manhattan.

A well researched and well written story of the doomed romance between Quentin Roosevelt and Flora Whitney.

A well researched and well written story of the doomed romance between Quentin Roosevelt and Flora Whitney.

She was escorted by Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, although her father did not approve of young Roosevelt.

Flora Payne Whitney () was engaged to marry Quentin Roosevelt before he was killed in World War I. Flora, called “Fouf” by Quentin.

At the time, Roosevelt's youngest (and by many accounts, favorite) son, Quentin, was 20 years old and engaged to marry Flora Payne Whitney.

Quentin Roosevelt kept a picture of his fiancée, Flora Payne Whitney, inside the book's pages.

Her father was Harry Payne Whitney (–), a sportsman and heir to the Whitney family fortune, and her mother was sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt (–), heiress to a substantial part of the Vanderbilt family fortune. She attended Brearley School in New York and Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia, where she met and became close lifelong friends with the artist Kay Sage.

Career

During World War I, she worked with Ruth Hanna McCormick, wife of Senator Joseph M. McCormick, at the Washington headquarters of the Republican Women's National Executive Committee.^[2]

Whitney worked closely with her mother, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in the founding and endowing of the Whit