Artist Henry Barlow Carter was born in Bermondsea in 1805. Carter was a painter of landscapes but better known for his watercolour maritaime paintings, capturing the sights of storms and wreckages on the sea. The inspiration for his works came from a brief Naval career in his younger years. From the Navy Henry Barlow Carter moved to Hull where he worked as a teacher of drawing.
It was during his time in Hull he married his cousin Eliza Barlow and eventually moved to Scarborough. Carter and his family, he had two sons Henry Vandyke Carter and Joseph Newington Carter also both artists.
Henry Barlow Carter first lived in Auborough Street, Scarborough, then Queen Street before finally settling at 16 York Place where he set up and art school. There is a plaque in memory of him on the wall of the place where he lived and worked in Scarborough. Carter exhibited his works at the Royal Acacdamy and the Royal Society of British Artists. Some of his paintings included 'Scarborough, Early Morning', 'Street Scene, Robin Hoods Bay' and 'A Wreck Off Speeton Cliffs, Yorkshire'. Henry Barlow Carter eventually retired to Torquay where he died of Bronchitus in 1867.
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