Samuel Carrington

DC 's mother, Charlotte (Houghton) Carrington , was born in the 1850s into a family of whom little is known, but which lived in Kent and was of a lower class than the Carringtons (...

Samuel Carrington , DC 's father, was born 21 June 1832. He was educated at Cheltenham College , and spent ten years (from 1857) in India as an engineer with the East India Railway Company

Critic Jane Hill argues that with this work, Carrington established her voice as uniquely, identifiably her own. Hill connects the pose and surroundings of the subject with elements both of Carrington's 1915 portrait of...