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Margaret Sarah Carpenter - Original Early 19th Century Graphite Drawing. An utterly charming portrait of the On paper, laid down on backing paper, with backing card. Signed and inscribed lower right. There is some minor discolouration at the edge of the sheet as shown.Margaret Carpenter (1793–1872), born in Salisbury Margaret Sarah Geddes, the daughter of Captain Alexander Geddes and Harriet Easton. She was taught art by a local drawing-master. 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. She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington. Three of her works are now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. She mostly painted portraits in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence, although more fanciful and feminine in character. Her portraits of children were praised as particularly charming and natural – a spontaneity born of the artist’s years of observation of her five siblings and of her own children. Most of her portraits in public collections are of men; most of her portraits of women and children are still with the families who commissioned them.
