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Latitude
51.6892068
Longitude
-0.0009449
Start Date
1821-01-01
End Date
1909-01-01

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ID
tb95a3

Extended Data

Birth Place
Waltham Abbey, Essex, England
Biography
Watercolourist, designer and settler, John Carter was born in Waltham Abbey, England where he was a designer of printing and weaving. He emigrated to Australia on the S.S. Great Britain with his wife and family in 1861 and later went to New Zealand for about 7 years where two more children were born before returning to Australia. In 1867 he painted two transparencies to decorate local business premises for the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Melbourne. The first, 12 × 6 feet (3.6 × 1.8 m), for Messrs Greig & Murray, depicted the Victorian coat of arms; the second, 20 × 12 feet (6.1 × 3.7 m), for the Southern Insurance Company, was altogether more elaborate. In it Carter painted the Duke seated beside Neptune in his chariot drawn by sea-horses and followed by mermaids leading the Duke’s ship, the Galatea , across the ocean. When his watercolour Sketches from Nature, New Zealand were shown at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute in 1869, Carter himself was probably in New Zealand. His name appears in the Dunedin trade directory for the following year. Then he returned to Melbourne, being listed as a drawing teacher of Rathdowne Street, Carlton, in 1872-73. He showed A Panel in Pencil , A Panel with Victorian Birds, for Decoration , A Design for Paper and a watercolour of fruit at the Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition in preparation for the 1873 London International Exhibition in 1872, while another Fruit watercolour was shown non-competitively at the preparatory exhibition to the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Mr Carter of Victoria showed 'some nice pictures of still life’ with the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1877; the Sydney Mail critic thought that Oysters would 'probably deceive a good many casual observers’. More natural history subjects were included in the 1879 Sydney International Exhibition from 23 Drummond Street, Carlton (Vic.): Fruit , Bird’s Nest , Redbreast’s Retreat and Belladonna Lily . In 1880 four of his watercolours (including New Caledonian Pigeon ) and two oil paintings (both Fruit ) were sent to the Melbourne International Exhibition by the Victorian Academy of Arts of which he apparently remained a stalwart member. Some of his landscape and natural history drawings, both of Australian and New Zealand subjects, are in a family collection. Many others are held privately. Writers: Staff Writer tolmih Date written: 1992 Last updated: 2012
Born
b. 28 August 1821
Summary
John Carter was a Master Designer of Printing and Weaving in Crayford, Kent,England before migrating in 1861 to Victoria Australia. He moved to Dunedin, New Zealand for 7 years before returning to Victoria, Australia.He was a Watercolourist of Still Life, Teacher of Drawing and Designr of Wallpaper until his death in 1909. His Grandson was the noted Australian Portrait Painter and Stained Glass Artist Norman St Clair Carter.
Gender
Male
Died
24-Apr-09
Age at death
88