Penelope Carwardine

[1] She was one of eight children born to John Carwardine of Thinghills Court and his wife, Anne Bullock of Preston Wynn.

[2] According to the Dictionary of National Biography and other sources, she was instructed by Ozias Humphrey, and mastered the art in 1754.

[1] Carwardine belonged to the Modest School of English miniaturists, a group that also included Peter Paul Lens and Gervase Spencer.

Many of her miniatures remained in the possession of her family as of 1887, together with three portraits of Carwardine: one by Thomas Bardwell, 1750; one by a Chinese artist, about 1756; the third by George Romney, about 1790.

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