William Carpenter
William Carpenter
1818 - 1899
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Born in 1818 in London; Died in 1899 London
Painter in oils and watercolours.
William Carpenter entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1835. His father William Hookham Carpenter was Keeper of Prints at the British Museum, and his mother Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Geddes) was a highly respected portraitist. There has been some suspicion that the painting titled 'Mother and Child', and held by Southwark Art Collection, is in fact painted by William's mother, Margaret. Its current attribution is to William.
During the 1850s, Carpenter travelled to India and produced an extensive series of watercolours. These works depict typical scenes from Indian life and wonderfully capture the people of India with a degree of respect and intensity. Many of these watercolours are individually dated and allow us to identify Carpenter's precise route around India. From such dates we know that he arrived in Bombay in 1850 and travelled across much of the entire country over a period of six years. Many of these watercolours are now held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and provide a unique insight into nineteenth-century Indian life from the perspective of a British, Victorian travelling artist. Carpenter's wonderfully animated watercolours show a close attention to detail, particularly of traditional agricultural practices, Indian costume and daily routines. In 1881, Carpenter exhibited 275 of his paintings in a one-man show at the then named South Kensington Museum, London (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). The collection was subsequently purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
(Benjamin Angwin - October 2014)
Painter in oils and watercolours.
William Carpenter entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1835. His father William Hookham Carpenter was Keeper of Prints at the British Museum, and his mother Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Geddes) was a highly respected portraitist. There has been some suspicion that the painting titled 'Mother and Child', and held by Southwark Art Collection, is in fact painted by William's mother, Margaret. Its current attribution is to William.
During the 1850s, Carpenter travelled to India and produced an extensive series of watercolours. These works depict typical scenes from Indian life and wonderfully capture the people of India with a degree of respect and intensity. Many of these watercolours are individually dated and allow us to identify Carpenter's precise route around India. From such dates we know that he arrived in Bombay in 1850 and travelled across much of the entire country over a period of six years. Many of these watercolours are now held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and provide a unique insight into nineteenth-century Indian life from the perspective of a British, Victorian travelling artist. Carpenter's wonderfully animated watercolours show a close attention to detail, particularly of traditional agricultural practices, Indian costume and daily routines. In 1881, Carpenter exhibited 275 of his paintings in a one-man show at the then named South Kensington Museum, London (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). The collection was subsequently purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
(Benjamin Angwin - October 2014)