Gladys Winifred Carrington
Birthname: Gladys Winifred Chandler
Alias: Gladys Carrington
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 12 October 1889
Place of birth: London
Date of death: 1940
Category: model
Identity:
Gladys Winifred Chandler was born on 12 October 1889. By the time of the census in 1891, her parents had changed their name to Carrington.
In the 1891 census Eveline Victoria Anne Carrington aged 2 and Gladys Winifred Carrington, aged 1, the daughters of Walter Robert Carrington (messenger and hall porter, aged 36) and his wife Louisa (a theatre attendant, aged 26) were living at 310 Lisle Street, St Anne's, London. Ten years later 'Evelyn' and 'Gladys Carrington' were living with their parents, the Carringtons, at 304 Harper Street, WC. The two girls, 'Eva' and 'Gladys' both modelled for Whistler.
'Gladys W. Chandler' married Christopher Humphrey Tancred (1888-1971) in 1915. 'Gladys Tancred' died on 2 July 1940 shortly after being admitted to Long Grove mental hospital in Epsom, Surrey.
Life:
Gladys, like her sister, posed for Whistler. At times they posed together e.g. Eva and Gladys Carrington seated on a sofa m1528, Eva and Gladys Carrington seated on a sofa m1529, The Bead Stringers m1530.
She was, like her sister, attractive, with dark curly hair. She became an actress, and starred, for instance, in The Beauty of Bath at the Aldwych Theatre.
Bibliography:
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 .
Ancestry.co. uk website.
National Portrait Gallery website at https://www.npg.org.uk.
