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Authorized form of name
Carr, Henry (1894–1970), artist
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- Henry Marvell Carr, RA RP RBA
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Description area
Dates of existence
16 August 1894 – 16 March 1970
History
A successful British landscape and portrait painter who served as a war artist during World War II. Carr was born in Leeds and trained at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art, under William Rothenstein. During World War I, he served in France with the Royal Field Artillery. After the war his work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1921, in other British galleries and in Paris. He painted portraits of, among others, Aldous Huxley and Olivia Davis and landscapes of the English south coast.