Caroline Millard (also known as Mrs Millard) (died 26 April 1894) was an Irish wood engraver.
Caroline Millard | |
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| Born | Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 26 April 1894 Dublin |
| Family | Benjamin Clayton II (father) Benjamin Clayton I (grandfather) Benjamin Clayton III (brother) Ellen Creathorne Clayton (daughter) |
Life
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Caroline Millard was born Caroline Clayton in Dublin, she was the daughter of the wood engraver, Benjamin Clayton II. In 1841, she married the English cabinet-maker, Thomas Millard, who had moved to Dublin from Cheltenham in 1838. He went on to establish a photographic studio with James Simonton in 1856 on Sackville Street. He died on 6 February 1882. Millard died at her home, 10 Mount Pleasant Square, on 26 April 1894. She is buried in Mount Jerome. Her son, William Millard, became a sculptor.[1][2] Her niece, by her brother Benjamin Clayton III, was the author Ellen Creathorne Clayton.[3]
She trained as an engraver under her father, and had a successful engraving business in Dublin. In 1844, she won a prize from the Irish Art Union for her title page of Spirit of the Nation after Burton. Her engraving of Daniel Maclise's self-portrait appears in the 1871 memoir of Maclise by William Justin O'Driscoll.[1] She ran her business from 58 Harcourt Street, and later 10 Mount Pleasant Square.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Strickland, Walter G. (1913). A Dictionary of Irish Artists. Dublin: Maunsel & company, limited. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "MILLARD, THOMAS". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ Clarke, Frances (2009). "Clayton, Eleanor ('Ellen') Creathorne". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "Mrs. Caroline Millard". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
External links
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Media related to Caroline Clayton at Wikimedia Commons