CARPENTER, Margaret Sarah, English painter: b. Salisbury, England, in 1793; d. Lon don, 13 Nov. 1872. Her first studies in art were obtained from the collection of Lord Rad nor at Longford Castle, and later she competed for several years for the prizes offered by the Society of Arts, several times successfully, and once being awarded the gold medal for the study of a boy's head. In 1814 she went to London, where she secured for herself a wide reputation as a portrait painter; in that year her exhibits of a portrait of Lord Folkestone at the Royal Academy and the pictures (For tune-Teller) and 'Peasant Boy) at the British Institution at once gained for her great popu larity and marked the beginnings of her rapid rise. In 1866 upon the death of her husband, W. H. Carpenter, keeper of the prints and drawings in the British Museum, she was granted by the Queen an annual pension of £100. Between the years 1816-66 she exhibited 147 pictures at the Royal Academy, 50 at the British Institution and 19 at the Society of British Artists. Chief among her pictures are
'Lord Kilcoursie and Lady Sarah de Cres pigny) (1812) ; 'Lord Folkestone) (1814) ; 'Mr. (1815); 'Sir Henry Bunbury> (1822); 'Lady Eastnor> (1825) ; 'Lord de Tab ley) (1829) ; (1830) ; 'Lady Denbigh) (1831); 'Mrs. Hernes) (1832 ; King, daughter of Lord Byron) (1835 Na-; 'Archbishop Sumner) (1852), etc. In the tional Portrait Gallery are also three portraits from her brush—those of Richard Parkes Bonington, the painter; John Gibson, the sculptor; and Patrick F. Tytler, the historian. In the South Kensington Museum are three pictures: 'Devotion) (1822) ; 'The Sisters) (1840); and 'An Old Woman Spinning.) Con sult Clayton, E. C., 'English Female Artists' (Vol. I, pp. 386-88, 1876).