Samuel John Carter 1850 3 Etched Architectural Artworks of Castle Acre Priory Norfolk.
Amazingly detailed charcoal etching and heightened furthermore with white detailing, they are all signed and dated for 1850 at the bottom.
Original ebonised glazed wooden frames all match.
Samuel John Carter etched these stunning and detailed artworks when he was only 14.
All three Measurements are 33cm by 44cm.
Samuel John Carter was born March 1835 in Swaffham Norfolk, the son of Samuel Isaac Carter, a gamekeeper. As a child, Carter took lessons from John Sell Cot-man who ran a school of drawing in Swaffham.
Basing himself in London and Swaffham, Carter established himself as an animal painter, including wildlife and hunting scenes, and was the principal animal illustrator for the Illustrated London News from 1867 to 1889. He also worked as an animal portrait painter in his Norfolk locale, including obtaining commissions to paint clients’ horses and dogs. Exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy
In 1858, at the age of 22, Carter married Martha Joyce (c. 1836–1920) at Swaffham They had 11 children: ten sons and a daughter, with three sons dying in infancy. Most of the surviving children inherited their father’s artistic talent with three, William, Verney and Amy, exhibiting at the Royal Acadamy The youngest, Howard, became an archaeologist after gaining a reputation for his precise copying of Egyptian tomb decorations, he later discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Carter died on 1 May 1892 aged 57.
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