About the artist:

Robert Carrick (1820-1905) was a Scottish artist and lithographer born in Calton, Glasgow. He was employed by Day and Son in the mid-19thC; worked as assistant to Louis Haghe and with the draughtsmen Charles Haghe, George Hawkins, Edmund Walter, the brothers Andrew and Thomas Picken, the Frenchman, Edmond Morin, and William Simpson. Much of his career was spent living in working in England. Despite exhibiting at the RA from several London addresses, Carrick made his name from such scenes of rustic genre and a keen sympathy for the tired and oppressed pervades his work. In this he pre-empts the social realist painters of later decades.