Alice Comyns Carr
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1 January 1850
Alice Comyns Carr | |
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 Mrs. J. W. Comyns Carr by John Singer Sargent c. 1889 | |
| Born | Alice Laura Vansittart Strettell 1 January 1850 |
| Died | October 11, 1927 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Costume designer |
Alice Vansittart Comyns Carr (née Strettell; 1 January 1850 – 11 October 1927), was a British costume designer for theatre, whose work is associated with the Aesthetic dress movement.[1]
Alice Laura Vansittart Strettell was born on 1 January 1850 in Genoa to Laura (née Vansittart Neale) and the Reverend Alfred Baker Strettell, the British consular chaplain in Genoa, Italy between 1851 and 1874. Her father later became the rector of St. Martin's Church in Canterbury. Her sister, Alma Strettell, was a writer and translator,[2] her maternal uncle was Edward Vansittart Neale, a leader in the Christian Socialist movement.[1] As a young girl, Strettell was sent to Britain to be educated in a school in Brighton, which she hated. She spent some holidays with her grandmother and an aunt in Cheltenham who she later described as "deliciously worldly-minded".[1]
In 1873, Alice married J. Comyns Carr, a drama and art critic, author, playwright and director of the Grosvenor Gallery. They had three children: Philip, Dorothy, and Arthur, who became a Member of Parliament.[3][4]
