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Biography |
¶ 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. |