Frank Thomas Carter

The Maas Gallery, London, July 2004

The work appears to be on board which appears sound - a minor abrasion in upper right corner. Some light surface dirt otherwise the work appears in good overall condition. Ultraviolet light reveals some scattered flecks of retouching in the sky. There is thin a vertical line extending from left half of lower edge faintly visible to naked eye, this is possibly a result of surface staining or retouching. Held in a gilt wood frame.
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Frank Thomas Carter painted a number of landscape and seascape scenes, of which the present is a particularly atmospheric example. His paintings were almost exclusively painted in the north of England where he grew up and worked as a newsagent in Newcastle and later for his family’s pub, the Nags Head.

After discovering his love of painting, Carter began exhibiting at the Berwick Club and in 1898 he sent his first work to the Royal Academy. He became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Cambridge Academy and the Suffolk Street Gallery.