Background
Cartwright was born at Edgcote, Northamptonshire, the daughter of Richard Aubrey Cartwright and Honorary Mary Fremantle, daughter of Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe.
Cartwright was born at Edgcote, Northamptonshire, the daughter of Richard Aubrey Cartwright and Honorary Mary Fremantle, daughter of Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe.
She was educated privately.
In 1868, she toured France, Austria, and Italy with her family. Ady"s initial interest in renaissance art expanded to include contemporary artists, in particular Turner, Landseer, and Whistler and moved on the Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and Watts, Millet, Bastien-Lepage, and Puvis de Chavannes. She was positive about some forms of modern art, but was shocked at the 1912 Post-impressionism exhibition mounted by Roger Fry at the Grafton Galleries.
Her views of art were those of Victorian England which appreciated Raphael and disparaged Post-Impressionism.