William Carpenter (painter)

William Carpenter (* 1818 in London, † 1899 in Forest Hill ( Oxfordshire ) ) was an English painter.

William Carpenter came from an artistic family, his mother was the renowned portrait painter Margaret Sarah Carpenter and his father William Hookham Carpenter, who worked at the British Museum as head of the graphics department. William Carpenter studied at the Royal Academy. Between 1850 and 1856 he traveled to India and Afghanistan, where he painted many watercolors. Back in England he could sell his photos to a newspaper.

1881 William Carpenter had an exhibition at the South Kensington Museum, later the Victoria and Albert Museum, which bought 275 of his pictures.