Florence Carter-Wood

{{short description|English painter}}

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| name = Florence Carter-Wood

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| birth_name = Edith Florence Carter-Wood

| birth_date = 4 September 1888

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|7|24|1888|9|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Lamorna, Cornwall{{cite web|url=http://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/florence-carter-wood |title=Florence CARTER-WOOD | cornwall artists index |publisher=Cornwallartists.org |date= |access-date=2020-09-05}}

| nationality = British

| field = Painting

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| movement = Newlyn School

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Florence Carter-Wood (4 September 1888 – 24 July 1914) was a British painter.{{cite web|url=http://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/florence-carter-wood |title=Florence CARTER-WOOD | cornwall artists index |publisher=Cornwallartists.org |date= |access-date=2015-08-08}}

She studied at the Forbes School of Painting, founded by Stanhope Forbes and his wife Elizabeth, with her brother Joey Carter-Wood.{{cite book|author1=Austin Wormleighton|author2=Samuel John Lamorna Birch|pages=112|title=A painter laureate: Lamorna Birch and his circle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLdNAAAAYAAJ|date=January 1995|publisher=Sansom & Co.|isbn=978-1-872971-24-7}} She went to Cornwall to continue her studies, and while there she mixed with the Lamorna community. She also modeled for portraits by other members of the community, including Harold Knight.{{cite web|url=http://cornishmuse.blogspot.co.uk/2013_03_01_archive.html|title=Summer in February. Art in Lamorna 1910-1914|website=Women Artists in Cornwall|date=21 March 2013|access-date=12 August 2016}}

Carter-Wood married the painter Alfred Munnings on 19 January 1912. She first attempted suicide while they were on their honeymoon, and Munnings later stated that the marriage had never been consummated.{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/film-tv/summer-february-how-welsh-love-5146455|title=Summer in February: How a Welsh love story was turned into the romance film of the summer|website=WalesOnline|date=21 July 2013|access-date=12 August 2016}} Carter-Wood subsequently developed a close relationship with Munnings' friend, Captain Gilbert Evans, a Welsh army officer and local land agent.{{cite web|url=http://horsetalk.co.nz/2013/01/09/film-explores-early-life-famous-horse-artist/#axzz3cV2woEzw |title=Film explores early life of famous horse artist - News |publisher=Horsetalk.co.nz |date=2013-01-09 |access-date=2015-08-08}}{{cite web|author=Read |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/exhibitions/9005271/at-last-alfred-munnings-is-being-taken-seriously-again/ |title=At last Alfred Munnings is being taken seriously again |publisher=The Spectator |date=2013-08-31 |access-date=2015-08-08}} Munnings, meanwhile, was close to Harold Knight's wife Laura, herself an artist.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6209440/Secret-portrait-of-British-artist-hidden-behind-another-canvas-by-admirer.html|title=Secret portrait of British artist hidden behind another canvas by admirer|website=The Telegraph|date=21 September 2009|access-date=12 August 2016}} Evans, though not an artist, had become closely involved with the Lamorna community and referred to Carter-Wood in his diary by the nickname "Blote".

In July 1914, after Evans had left for colonial service in Nigeria, Carter-Wood killed herself by taking cyanide.