Hugh Carter (painter)

Hugh Carter (4 March 1837 – 27 September 1903) was an English painter, of subject paintings, portraits and landscapes.

[1] From 1859 to 1902 Carter exhibited twenty-four pictures at the Royal Academy, mostly subject paintings in the domestic genre, with also portraits of Alexander Blair (1873 and 1898), Sir Joshua Staples, F.S.A.

Two of his successful exhibits were Music hath Charms (1872) and Card Players (1873), both representing scenes from Westphalian peasant life.

[1] As a water-colour painter, Carter was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Institute, of which he became an associate in 1871 and a member in 1875.

The Tate Gallery acquired his oil painting, The Last Ray (1878); the London Guildhall his Hard Times; and the Victoria and Albert Museum his water-colours Buildings and Gondolas at Venice and Interior of the Capuchin Convent at Albano.