and was described by Horace Walpole as "ridiculous and bad". An engraving of the picture was issued, with a key to the individuals depicted. In 1786 he held an exhibition of 35 of his own works in Pall Mall. He spent some time in India.<ref>An example of an Indian subject by Carter is his Officer of a Sepoy Regiment with His Syce and a Drummer" (1786) at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire.</ref> 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" He lived in Hendon later in life, and died there on 12 September 1794. References Attribution: Further reading Burden, Michael. "The Making and Marketing of the Georgian Apotheosis: Carter, Strange, Rebecca, Tresham, and de Loutherbourg". The British Art Journal'', 22/1 (2021) pp. 10–17. External links 1737 births 1795 deaths 18th-century English painters English male painters People from Colchester People from Hendon 18th-century English male artists