James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, 1819?-1900 has 319 works listed in the Australian Art Sales Digest.

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James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, 1819?-1900, Australia.

Born Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Alexander Carse, also a painter, James Carse studied at the Royal Scottish Academy. He emigrated to Adelaide from London around 1867, possibly aboard the yacht 'Galatea' with the Duke of Edinburgh, which would explain why his name does not appear on early passenger lists. Prior to 1871, he travelled and painted extensively in Australia and New Zealand. A foundation member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870 and also the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872, Sands Sydney Directory lists him under a variety of accidental aliases: J. H. Carr (1877), James Carr (1880), J Cars (1882) and J. A. Carse (1883) . Exhibiting his work widely, he received many awards including first class certificates for two of the oil paintings shown at the Melbourne Inter-colonial Exhibition in 1875. These works were then forwarded to the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. That same year, he was labelled as 'perhaps the best painter in the colony'. He was a foundation member of the Art Society of New South Wales when it was formed in 1880 by a group of professional artists who seceded from the Academy of Art. He is represented in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery amongst many others. He died in Sydney in 1900.

Top Five Sale Prices

James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, Natives in Tropical. Mountain Landscape, oil on canvas, signed with initials lower right, 32 x 54.5 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 16/04/85

James Howe Carse, View of Melbourne from the Botanical Gardens 1868, oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed indistinctly lower right: J. H. Carse/ Melbourne/ 1868, 61 x 92 cm, Price $****, Deutscher~Menzies, Sydney, 05/12/07

James Howe Carse, Mount Dromedary, Wodonga, oil on canvas, signed lower right; bears title on label on the reverse, 70 x 120 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 11/04/06

James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, Bulli Pass, Woolongong, oil on canvas, signed 'J. H. Carse' lower right, 50 x 67.5 cm, Price $****, Joel's, Melbourne, 21/08/96

James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, Fairy Bower, Manly, 1876, oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed 'Sydney' lower right, 58 x 104 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Sydney, 29/11/91

The table below shows the number of works of art by James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse offered and sold by auction in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty years and listed in our database. Full details of each work, including title, medium, size, signature and sold price are available to subscribers.

Medium Offered Sold

Paintings 305 194

Works on Paper 12 7

Prints & Graphics 2 1

The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand since the early 1970s. The database is regularly updated with current year auction results, as they become available.
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James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, 1819?-1900, Australia.
Born Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Alexander Carse, also a painter, James Carse studied at the Royal Scottish Academy. He emigrated to Adelaide from London around 1867, possibly aboard the yacht 'Galatea' with the Duke of Edinburgh, which would explain why his name does not appear on early passenger lists. Prior to 1871, he travelled and painted extensively in Australia and New Zealand. A foundation member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870 and also the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872, Sands Sydney Directory lists him under a variety of accidental aliases: J. H. Carr (1877), James Carr (1880), J Cars (1882) and J. A. Carse (1883) . Exhibiting his work widely, he received many awards including first class certificates for two of the oil paintings shown at the Melbourne Inter-colonial Exhibition in 1875. These works were then forwarded to the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. That same year, he was labelled as 'perhaps the best painter in the colony'. He was a foundation member of the Art Society of New South Wales when it was formed in 1880 by a group of professional artists who seceded from the Academy of Art. He is represented in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery amongst many others. He died in Sydney in 1900.
Top Five Sale Prices
James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, Natives in Tropical. Mountain Landscape, oil on canvas, signed with initials lower right, 32 x 54.5 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 16/04/85
James Howe Carse, View of Melbourne from the Botanical Gardens 1868, oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed indistinctly lower right: J. H. Carse/ Melbourne/ 1868, 61 x 92 cm, Price $****, Deutscher~Menzies, Sydney, 05/12/07
James Howe Carse, Mount Dromedary, Wodonga, oil on canvas, signed lower right; bears title on label on the reverse, 70 x 120 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 11/04/06
James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, Bulli Pass, Woolongong, oil on canvas, signed 'J. H. Carse' lower right, 50 x 67.5 cm, Price $****, Joel's, Melbourne, 21/08/96
James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse, Fairy Bower, Manly, 1876, oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed 'Sydney' lower right, 58 x 104 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Sydney, 29/11/91
The table below shows the number of works of art by James Howe (aka J[ames] Carr) Carse offered and sold by auction in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty years and listed in our database. Full details of each work, including title, medium, size, signature and sold price are available to subscribers.
Medium	Offered	Sold
Paintings	305	194
Works on Paper	12	7
Prints & Graphics	2	1
The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand since the early 1970s. The database is regularly updated with current year auction results, as they become available. The information is used Access to the database is available on either a monthly subscription for $Au25.00 or annual subscription for $Au145.00. During the subscription period you have unlimited access to the site. If you would like to subscribe, please click here for our Secure Subscription Form Please note we do not buy, sell, appraise or value works of art, but offer an information resource used by auction houses, collectors, commercial galleries, valuers, researchers and consultants.