Caroline Millard

Caroline Millard was born Caroline Clayton in Dublin, she was the daughter of the wood engraver, Benjamin Clayton II. In 1841, she married the English cabinet-maker, Thomas Millard, who had moved to Dublin from Cheltenham in 1838. He went on to establish a photographic studio with James Simonton in 1856 on Sackville Street. He died on 6 February 1882. Millard died at her home, 10 Mount Pleasant Square, on 26 April 1894. She is buried in Mount Jerome. Her son, William Millard, became a sculptor.^[1][2] Her niece, by her brother Benjamin Clayton III, was the author Ellen Creathorne Clayton.^[3]

She trained as an engraver under her father, and had a successful engraving business in Dublin. In 1844, she won a prize from the Irish Art Union for her title page of Spirit of the Nation after Burton. Her engraving of Daniel Maclise's self-portrait appears in the 1871 memoir of Maclise by William Justin O'Driscoll.^[1] She ran her business from 58 Harcourt Street, and later 10 Mount Pleasant Square.^[4]

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