Margaret Sarah (Geddes) Carpenter (abt. 1793 - 1872)

Born about 1793 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Died 13 Nov 1872 at about age 79 in London, England

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Biography

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Margaret Sarah Carpenter, born Margaret Sarah Geddes, was a British painter. Noted in her time, she mostly painted portraits in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence. She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington.^[1]

She was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England in about 1793. ^[2]

She was taught art by a local drawing-master. Her first art studies were made from the pictures at Longford Castle, belonging to Lord Radnor.^[3]

In 1812, one of her copies of the head of a boy was awarded a medal by the Society of Arts, who awarded her another medal in 1813, and a gold medal in 1814. She went to London in 1814, and soon established her reputation as a fashionable portrait painter. She exhibited a portrait of Lord Folkestone at the Royal Academy in 1814, and a picture entitled ‘The Fortune Teller’ at the British Institution. She exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1818 and 1866. She also exhibited at the British Institution and at the Suffolk Street Gallery.^[4]

In 1817 she married William Hookham Carpenter, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Their children included two noted painters, another William and Percy Carpenter, who both travelled. On her husband's death in 1866, she was given an annual pension of £100 by Queen Victoria. This award was partly based on her husband's service, but also in recognition of her own artistic merits.^[5]

At the time of the 1871 census, she was living at 22 Upper Gloucester Place, St Marylebone, Middlesex, England as a 78 year old widow and described as "formerly portrait painter" born in Salisbury. Wiltshire. Two of her unmarried children William (aged 52 "Portrait painter") and Henrietta (aged 49) were living in the same household, along with two servants. ^[2]

Sources

• Margaret Sarah Geddes at Wikipedia

References

1. ↑ Margaret Sarah Geddes at Wikipedia
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Margaret Carpenter in: 1871 census of England and Wales. The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 176; Folio: 52; Page: 3; GSU roll: 823305, Accessed on Ancestry.co.uk 23 April 2019 Free Ancestry sharing image
3. ↑ Margaret Sarah Geddes at Wikipedia
4. ↑ Margaret Sarah Geddes at Wikipedia
5. ↑ Margaret Sarah Geddes at Wikipedia