Samuel John Carter
(1835-1892), Animal and sporting painterSitter in 2 portraits
Father of Howard Carter. Carter was an artist who specialised in animal and sporting paintings and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions. He trained Howard in the skills of drawing and watercolour painting, skills he would use throughout his career. His father also encouraged him to accept an offer from a local politician and antiquities collector, William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, who suggested the teenage Carter travel to Egypt to draw tomb scenes at Beni Hasan.
by Charles B. Praetorius
albumen carte-de-visite, mid-late 1870s
NPG Ax17167
by Pupil of Nadar
albumen carte-de-visite, 1880s
NPG Ax14921
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