Francis Stephen Cary (10 May 1808 – 6 January 1880) was an English painter and art teacher, who succeeded

Henry Sass Henry Sass (24 April 1788 – 1844) was an English artist and teacher of painting, who founded an important art school, Sass's Academy (later "Cary's Academy"), in London, to provide training for those seeking to enter the Royal Academy. Ma ...

as the head of his art academy. Among Cary's subjects was a portrait of

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and

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Life and work

Cary was born in

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, a younger son of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, (author and translator of

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), who was the local vicar. His brother

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became a judge in

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. Cary was educated at home, chiefly by his father, before becoming a pupil of Henry Sass at his well-known art academy in

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, London. Cary later became a student at the

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and for a short time painted in the studio of Sir

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. Lawrence died before Cary could become his pupil. In 1829, Cary studied in Paris and afterwards in Italy and at the Art School at

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. In 1833, 1834 and 1836, he accompanied his father on a foreign tour. In subsequent years he exhibited several pictures at the

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and elsewhere. F S Carey - Consolation

In 1841, Cary married Louisa, daughter of Charles Allen Philipps of St Bride's Hill,

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. The following year he returned as manager to Sass's Art School in Bloomsbury, which had been founded on the model of the Italian Bolognese School of painting.London higher: the establishment of higher education in London
Roderick Floud, p. 282, 1998, accessed 15 August 2010. Cary exhibited 35 paintings at The Royal Academy between 1837 and 1876 and was a candidate in the Westminster Hall competitions for the decoration of the

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, held in 1844 and 1847. Mary Lamb; Charles Lamb by Francis Stephen Cary

In 1874, Cary retired to Abinger in

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, where he died on 6 January 1880. He left no family. In the early part of his life, he enjoyed much of the literary society of the day through his father's social connections. His paintings include an interesting portrait of Charles and Mary Lamb. commissioned by

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References

;Attribution

External links

F. S. Carey on Artnet
(accessed August 2010)
A house in Westminster
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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cary, Francis Stephen 19th-century English painters English male painters British art teachers People from Warwickshire (before 1974) 1808 births 1880 deaths Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools 19th-century English male artists