Alice De Haas was born in Boston and spent the majority of her life in East Gloucester, Massachusetts and in New York City. She studied art with William Merritt Chase, R. Swain Gifford and with the Dutch/American painter Mauritz de Haas. She also studied with Rhoda Holmes Nicholls and at the Academie Julian in Paris.

She married de Haas, and after his death in 1895, she married William Carpender. She was listed in the American Art Annuals under both of her married names.

Her professional memberships included the New York Water Color Society and the New York Society of Painters. She became known for her miniatures as well as paintings of the sea and its related activities.

Her exhibition record is lengthy and includes the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, the Art Institute of Chicago, NY Water Color Society and the NY Society of Miniature Painters. Her works were also shown at the National Academy of Design, American Water Color Society, the Boston Art Club and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

Many museums incorporated her work in their shows including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Portland Art Museum, Maine. In 1917 she exhibited two works "Drying the Sails" and "Just Dishes" with the Society of Independent Artists.

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton