• Also known by her married name Harriet Cheney, was a British artist.
• She was noted for her watercolours of landscapes and also gained recognition as a portrait painter.
• Harriet Carr was born in Durham in September 1771.
• Her parents were Isabella Byrne and Ralph Carr who was a merchant and banker.
• She was the youngest of five children.
• It has been stated that she received lessons from John 'Warwick' Smith, a British watercolour landscape artist, 'before her marriage'.
• The picture of the sculptor Anne Seymour Damer was painted by Harriet Carr in 1788 when she was in her teens.
• In September 1791 her eldest brother, John, took her to Italy.
• The Carrs arrived in Rome in December 1791 and stayed for almost six months.
• They eventually made it back to England in the summer of 1794 by a circuitous route.
• Harriet married Colonel Robert Cheney in 1799.
• He later became Lieutenant-General Robert Cheney of Badger Hall, Shropshire.
