Thomas Heathfield Carrick

Thomas Heathfield Carrick (4 July 1802 – 1874) was an English portrait miniature painter who portrayed many leading political and literary figures of his age.

[1] Carrick was born in Upperby, near Carlisle in Cumberland (now Cumbria), the son of John Carrick (d. 1852), thought to be a Carlisle Mill owner but listed on the register of births as a calico printer, and Mary (née) Anderson.

While in business he continued to paint miniatures, despite never having seen an example by another artist, apart from himself, until he came across a piece by William Charles Ross.

He was eventually able to sell up his apothecary business, and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1836 (after exhibiting there in 1835), then to London, with his family, in November 1839.

[1][2] Amongst his illustrious subjects were Thomas Carlyle, Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell,[3] William Wordsworth, Samuel Rogers, Caroline Norton, Eliza Cook, William Charles Macready, Nellie Farren, Luigi Lablache, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel O'Connell and Robert Owen.