In Carr's own words: 'So I met Andy Warhol, he saw the drawings I was doing, and next thing I knew he put me up at the Ritz for two days, then took me to America.
[3] In 1988 Carr married Lady Anne Somerset, a well regarded historian and daughter of the 11th Duke of Beaufort.
According to the art critic Richard Dorment, sitting for Carr was a difficult experience involving 'tedious hours sitting in frozen-faced silence, when, aware of eyes boring into me with frightening intensity, I listened to the scratching of pencil on paper and the ticking of my wristwatch.'
Carr claimed to hate the picture he made of the musician Diana Ross, a rare commissioned piece, due to compromising on the singer's request to include a sunset in the background.
Instead he tended to be select his models himself, often from the world of literature, Tom Stoppard, Miriam Gross, Sebastian Faulks, James Fenton, Alan Jenkins and Francis Wyndham.