Biography John Carter

John Carter at the work of engraving U. Hall “The first thing I remember: I am at school and I draw. Whenever I had a pen or pencil in my hands, I definitely painted in my books or on a neckboard, and when I came home, on the walls. ” So said about himself the son of a poor agricultural worker John Carter, who was born in Kogswole County Essex, Great Britain on July 31.

Since childhood, he had a living mind, but this was more likely to be mischievous than in success in his studies. However, he had one addiction - drawing. After graduating from school in the year, John worked in a silk factory, where he earned decently. Married in the year. As he himself said later: “I looked at my friends and did the same as they: I often visited the tavern, and soon I began to like it.” It seemed boring to him to spend evenings at home with his young wife, and in a tavern - fun.

Rev. Dampir believed that what happened later was naturally: "Without a loose life, the punishment would be unfair." So, we approach the events of Saturday evening in May. After good gatherings in the John Carter beer John and seven or eight young people, they decided that it would be nice to go for a walk, at the same time misconduct rook nests. John Carter climbed onto a tree, tried to jump to another, but missed and fell from a forty -foot height of a modern five -story building.

When his shocked friends gathered around, they found that he was alive and trying to say: “Help! They tried to help - John's breathing became a little easier, but he lost consciousness. The unfortunate frightened comrades brought John home to his wife distraught from a sudden grief. The doctor, who was called in 4. Although John had practically no chance, over the next two days he slowly came to his senses.

It gradually became obvious that the young man would survive, but will be paralyzed below the neck. When the fear of imminent death retreated, Carter ran into a frightening prospect of a completely different life. He was exhausted by shame and annoyance for such a turn of events, full of deepest despair, tried to realize what happened to him. Remembering his former life, he increasingly turned to the church, where he was looking and found spiritual food.

John Carter came to the conclusion that his disability was deserved: "The punishment of the heavenly father was weaned from sin." The detail of the original work of John Carter, a copy of the Buscar and His Friends. Mascara on thick paper, the inhabitants of Kogshall tried in every possible way to help him, in any case comfort. The parish gave John Carter a small manual on which he and his wife could exist.

Six weeks after the fall, the couple returned to the house of John's parents - mainly for the sake of saving. Carter became interested in reading, especially biographies, and about a year after the accident came across curious memoirs. Once my wife brought a treatise home, which talked about a young woman who was in a crazy house in Liverpool. Carter was delighted with this idea and did not calm down until he made an attempt to repeat.

There she was paralyzed, but the character and stamina of this woman impressed everyone who met her. The book "Memoirs of Elizabeth Kenning" was published in the year, in the year of her death. Sometimes on the neckboard, and sometimes on the scraps of paper, pinned to the pillow, working with a pencil and watercolor brush: "I sent for a six -lane box of colors and immediately made a drawing as it was brought." Over time, Joe Carter’s skill grew, his later works are unusual and beautiful.

After several experiments, he settled on a technique that included drawing with a pencil, and then applying the mascara with a very thin brush. John's works resembled engravings. Carter was helped by Miss Anna Hanbury later Mrs. Bramston. She was his frequent guest, sat by his bed when he painted. She brought him books and did everything possible to alleviate suffering.

It was she who began to sell his drawings to her everyone's friends. The Rev. Dampir described the process as follows: “The pose in which Carter painted was as follows: he lay a little on his side, his head was raised on pillows. For him, a small light desk was adapted, made by his own instructions, and paper attached by large pins with copper heads.

At first he made sketches with a pencil, sometimes no more than four inches in length, which he held in his teeth. Having done this, he prepared a small saucer with mascara, wet the brush with the help of a servant who put it in his mouth, and carried out the most accurate and delicate strokes; The accuracy of his drawing was completely amazing. He is used to using very thin brushes, some almost the same as needles, the brush was taken out from his mouth, replenished and returned to the servant.

Each picture required great efforts, since he often had to stop to relax. ” It should be noted that in the reproductions of John Carter, the work of John Carter is cooled and reduced. There were no photographs, and copies could only be made by engravers or lithographs.When the Dampier wrote the second edition of his memoirs, the engravers returned several drawings of Carter to him, explaining that their efforts “due to the extreme delicacy of working with the original failed, and we are afraid that we could not make a satisfactory work out of them.” The difference between the original and reproduction is very felt.

Lucy, the wife of Carter, suffered for a long time from heart disease and died in November. Hannah Carter, John's sister, took care of her brother and became his constant assistant. The circumstances of the Carter and his work gradually attracted the attention of the public, and he became an object of interest for surgeons, religious figures, artists and all who visited him in Kogshollah.

George Richmond, a famous artist, was with him and in his letter to the Monk Dampir wrote: “At first I was going to just make a sketch of his own face ... But when I saw him with a short pencil between the lips, performing with the greatest accuracy and skill, complex forms and describing complex bends, this filled me with surprise and delight.” John Carter was a pleasant young man, and the visitors were deeply touched by his fate and his obvious acceptance of what happened.

Dampir tells us that John was "grateful to everyone and was ready to take on any work that was required of him." Locals began to bring him paintings or engravings for copying; Some dragged dogs, cats and even foxes; And all this, in turn, he performed with the greatest caution. " John Carter drawing many consider the best work of the crankcase a drawing called “Rat and his Dogs”, ordered by John Mills in the year.

The artist Edwin Landsir described him as “the best sample of the animal pattern that he has ever seen,” and Queen Victoria herself acquired a copy. The original work left with Frederick Mills in Boston, but was printed in the memoirs of St. Dampis in the year. The unfinished reproduction of the drawing of John Carter Carter traveled along Kogsholla in a small crew, designed so that the couch on which he was lying could be quickly attached and removed from the wheels.

He was a crankcase, an artist. " It was this invention that led to his death on May 21. Directing the carriage down a small descent, the boy who helped the artist stumbled and fell, the carriage overturned, and the crankcase was thrown out. He seemed to recover quickly, but on Sunday, June 2, at nine in the evening he died very calmly and peacefully with a prayer on his lips.

He was thirty -five years old. Later, in the year, the Monk Dampier published memoirs, a copy of which was represented by the queen of Victoria, who sent 5 pounds “for the parents and sister of Mr. Carter”. In the year, after the first edition was sold out, the Dampier released another circulation of his memoirs. Translation by Denis Semenov.