An Old Woman Spinning Silk
1816
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1816
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
An Old Woman Spinning Silk is a 1816 oil by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This quiet painting shows an elderly woman bending over a spinning wheel. Her hands work the silk thread while her face stays calm and focused. The background fades into soft browns, so nothing pulls your eye away from her hands. The artist, Margaret Sarah Carpenter, was only 23 when she painted this. It was her first known work and shown at a London exhibit in 1816. She later became a well-known portrait painter. Look up Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of her work.
An oil painting by Margaret Sarah Carpenter from 1816 depicts an elderly woman dressed in a cloak and bonnet, seated at a spinning wheel. The work, one of her earliest known genre scenes, was exhibited that year at the British Institute under the title *An Old Woman Spinning Silk*. The painting may have been trimmed before its acquisition, as its current dimensions differ from the recorded exhibition size. It was bequeathed to the collection in 1870 by John M. Parsons.
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Portrait painter in the early 1800s England, Margaret Sarah Carpenter left us oil paintings like *An Old Woman Spinning Silk* from around 1816.
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