Hilda Anne Carline was a British painter, daughter of the artist George Francis Carline, and first wife of the artist Stanley Spencer. She studied art under the PostImpressionist Percyval TudorHart, with her brothers Sydney and Richard, and then at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks. She had a promising early start with her works being shown at the London Group, Royal Academy and New English Art Club.
Hilda Anne Carline was born onNovember 1889 to the artist George Francis Carline and Annie Smith Carline, who had been adopted by a relative and never knew her mother or father, John Smith.
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