 He became a student of the Royal Academy Schools in 1790, and reportedly studied anatomy.Throughout the 1790s Richter worked mainly as an illustrator, demonstrating skills as both draftsman and engraver; projects included editions of Samuel Richardson's "Sir Charles Grandison" and "Clarissa Harlowe" (with others, both 1793), Samuel Johnson's "Lives of the English Poets" (with others, 1797), and J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's "Paul and Virginia" (1799).For a period of time, Richter lived at #26 Newman St. in London.