DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF TWO CHILDREN, FULL-LENGTH, WITH A PONY

Margaret Sarah Carpenter established herself in London in 1813, at the age of 20, and exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of Artists from 1818. She was a source of inspiration for female artists of the period. W.T. Whitley commented of a Head of a Polish Jew (untraced) exhibited at the British Institution in 1823: 'It very rarely happens that a specimen of art like this is produced from the hand of a lady' (W.T. Whitley, Art in England 1821-1837, Cambridge, 1930, p.162).