Howard Carter was born on the 9th May, 1874, at 10th Rich Terrace in Kensington, England. Born into an artistic family, Carter developed and practiced his artisitic gift that he had inheritied from his father, ________. Although at an early age, the boy could draw any animal in any shape or form, he had no desire to pursue anything in the artistic field, instead wanting to pursue an occupation in the archaeological world after witnessing his father paint the portrait of William Amhurst Tyssen Amherst, the first Baron Amherst of Hackney. Therefore, in 1891 at the age of seventeen, Carter was sent on a ”trial run,” (Howard Carter Before Tutankhamun) for the British Museum to learn the “rudiments of archaeology,” (Howard Carter Before Tutankhamun)