William Carpenter (painter)

William Carpenter
William Carpenter
	The Tomb of Aurangzeb at Khuldabad, Aurangabad - 1850s by Carpenter
Born	c.1818; London, England
Died	1899; London
Other names	Watercolors of India in the 1850s
Education	Royal Academy
Occupation	artist
Parent(s)	William Hookham Carpenter and Margaret Carpenter (Geddes)

William Carpenter (1818–1899) was a watercolour artist. He travelled for six or seven years in the 1850s painting scenes of India, its people and its life. The Victoria and Albert Museum bought over 280 of his paintings.^[1] In 1856 he painted Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, the eldest son of Bahadur Shah II, the last King of Delhi, five months before the Prince died.^[2]

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William Carpenter
The Tomb of Aurangzeb at Khuldabad, Aurangabad - 1850s by Carpenter
Born	c.1818 London, England
Died	1899 London
Other names	Watercolors of India in the 1850s
Education	Royal Academy
Occupation	artist
Parent(s)	William Hookham Carpenter and Margaret Carpenter (Geddes)