Sydney CARTER (1874 – 1945)
Cape Cottage
year unknown
goache on paper
25 x 32 cm
Jacksons Drift
year unknown
oil on canvas
size unknown
Kaapse Opstal en Bome
year unknown
oil on canvas
size unknown
Cape Pines
year unknown
watercolour on paper
size unknown
Bluegums
year unknown
gouche on paper
23.5 x 36 cm
BIOGRAPHY
Sydney Carter was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England in 1874. After attending the Walthamstow School of Art in London from 1890 to 1895, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art from 1895 to 1899. In 1923, Carter arrived in South Africa and travelled around the country before eventually settling in Johannesburg in 1926. The following year, he began teaching art at the Witwatersrand Technical College. During the mid to late 1930s, he was commissioned to paint murals for the Johannesburg and Cape Town Post Offices.
Carter’s paintings – mainly gouache and oil landscapes of trees and farmsteads – are held in prominent South African collections, such as the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, Pretoria Art Museum, Durban Art Gallery, and Ann Bryant Art Gallery in East London. He was also an illustrator who worked on several book editions by acclaimed authors such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, as well as South African writer Dorothea Fairbridge.