Frederick Carter

Born in 1883, Frederick Carter built a varied creative life as an artist and writer. Reliable gallery and bookseller sources describe him as a British painter, printmaker, and mystic Symbolist artist who exhibited with groups including the Royal Academy and the New English Art Club.

Carter moved in lively London artistic circles before and after the First World War, especially around Fitzroy Street and Soho. Sources also connect him with Aleister Crowley and note that he produced illustrations for D. H. Lawrence's The Dragon of the Apocalypse, which helps place him at the meeting point of visual art, literature, and esoteric thought.

As an author, he is remembered for books such as The Dragon of the Alchemists and Symbols of Revelation, works that reflect his fascination with symbolism, spiritual imagery, and hidden meanings. He died in 1967, leaving behind a body of work that feels unusual, imaginative, and distinctly his own.