Margaret Sarah Carpenter Art for Sale at Auction

Painter, Miniature painter, b. 1793 - d. 1872

Margaret Sarah Carpenter (née Geddes, 1793 – 13 November 1872), was an English 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.

Carpenter was born in Salisbury, the daughter of Captain Alexander Geddes, who was of an Edinburgh family, and Harriet Easton. She was taught art by a local drawing-master. Her first art studies were made from the pictures at Longford Castle, belonging to the Earl of Radnor.