George Carter (artist)

He visited Italy in the company of John Singleton Copley, who had a significant influence on his work, and spent some time in India.

[1] In 1774 Carter visited France and Italy in the company of John Singleton Copley who had recently arrived in England from the United States.

However, relations between them soured during the journey, and Copley later compared him to "a sort of snail which crawled over a man in his sleep and left its slime, and no more".

It shows its protagonist carried towards Parnassus by angels, witnessed by a crowd of the leading actors of the time, and was described by Horace Walpole as "ridiculous and bad".

[8][9] On his outward voyage he met John Hynes, a survivor of a notorious shipwreck, and in 1791 Carter published a version of his account of the incident as A Narrative of the Loss of the Grosvenor, Eastindiaman, with his own engravings, describing himself on the title page as "George Carter, Historical Portrait Painter"[8][10] He lived in Hendon later in life,[1] and died there on 12 September 1794.