CARPENTER, MARGARET SARAH. The largest gold medal and other honors from the Society of Arts, London.  Born at Salisbury, England. 1793-1872.  Pupil of a local artist in Salisbury when quite young.  Lord Radnor’s attention was called to her talent, and he permitted her to copy in the gallery of Longford Castle, and advised her sending her pictures to London, and later to go there herself.  She made an immediate success as a portrait painter, and from 1814 during fifty-two years her pictures were annually exhibited at the Academy with a few rare exceptions.

Her family name was Geddis; her husband was Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum more than twenty years, and after his death his wife received a pension of L100 a year in recognition of his services.

Her portraits were considered excellent as likenesses; her touch was firm, her color brilliant, and her works in oils and water-colors as well as her miniatures were much esteemed.  Many of them were engraved.  Her portrait of the sculptor Gibson is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.  A life-size portrait of Anthony Stewart, miniature painter, called “Devotion,” and the “Sisters,” portraits of Mrs. Carpenter’s daughters, with a picture of “Ockham Church,” are at South Kensington.

She painted a great number of portraits of titled ladies which are in the collections of their families.  Among the more remarkable were those of Lady Eastnor, 1825; Lady King, daughter of Lord Byron, 1835; Countess Ribblesdale, etc.

Her portraits of Fraser Tytler, John Girkin, and Bonington are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.  In the South Kensington Gallery are her pictures of “Devotion—­St. Francis,” which is a life-size study of Anthony Stewart, the miniature painter; “The Sisters,” “Ockham Church,” and “An Old Woman Spinning.”

CARPENTIER, MLLE. MADELEINE. Honorable mention, 1890; third-class medal, 1896.  Born in Paris, 1865.  Pupil of Bonnefoy and of Jules Lefebvre at the Julian Academy.  Since 1885 this artist has exhibited many portraits as well as flower and fruit pieces, these last in water-colors.  In 1896 her pictures were the “Communicants” and the “Candles,” a pastel, purchased by the city of Paris; “Among Friends” is in the Museum of Bordeaux.

At the Salon of the Artistes Francais, 1902, Mlle. Carpentier exhibited a picture called “Reflection,” and in 1903 a portrait of Mme. L. T. and the “Little Goose-Herders.”

CARRIERA, ROSALBA, better known as Rosalba.  Born in Venice 1675-1757—­and had an eventful life.  Her artistic talent was first manifested in lace-weaving, which as a child she preferred before any games or amusements.  She studied painting under several masters, technique under Antonio Balestra, pastel-painting with Antonio Nazari and Diamantini, and miniature painting, in which she was especially distinguished, was taught her by her brother-in-law, Antonio Pellegrini, whom she later accompanied to Paris and London and assisted in the decorative works he executed there.