INVESTMENT ART !! SYDNEY CARTER (SA 1874 - 1945) GORGEOUS FRAMED LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOR PAINTING

INVESTMENT ART !!! 

SYDNEY CARTER (1874 - 1945) GORGEOUS FRAMED LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOR PAINTING  - NICELY FRAMED IN A VINTAGE FRAME - READY TO HANG

Sydney Carter, son of artist Richard Carter, was born in Enfield, England in 1874 and resided in South Africa from 1923. Mr Carter is considered a painter of portraits and landscapes, generally incorporating trees. He has been known to work in oil and gouache and is also cartoonist.In 1924, he was elected a fellow of the Cape Town Society of Arts and Crafts and began teaching at the Witwatersrand Technical College in 1927. He also illustrated several editions of works be Charles Dickens, Jane Austin and Charlotte Bronte. South African illustrations include Dorothea Fairbridge. His public commissions include five landscape murals in Jeppe Street Post Office, Johannesburg in 1936 and two murals in Cape Town Post Office in 1938. He is represented at the Africana Museum, Johannesburg, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, Ann Bryant Gallery, East London, Durban Art Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, National Museum Bloemfontein, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa National Gallery Cape Town, University of Pretoria and William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.

FRAME IS 510 X 400mm - PAINTING SIZE IS 265 X 190mm

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