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Dora Carrington (1893-1932)  

Aliases: Carrington; Dora "de" Houghton Carrington
Professions: Painter

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Biography

(b Hereford, 29 March 1893; d nr Newbury, Berks, 11 March 1932). English painter and decorative artist. Daughter of a Liverpool merchant, she was brought up in Bedford. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where she met John Nash, who aroused her interest in wood-engraving, and Mark Gertler, whose powerful figure paintings influenced her own approach to portraiture. She rejected Gertler as a lover and set up home with the ... (view more)

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