James Howe Carse

He exhibited in the UK, won a gold medal in Chicago and rose to be described as the "best painter" in the colony of New South Wales.

[11] The works included landscape scenes on the Campaspe and Mile Creek, Melbourne (as seen from the Botanical Gardens) and other illustrations of bush life.

By September 1868[12] Carse had begun commission work in animal and landscape paintings from premises at 143 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.

By March 1869, Carse had six paintings exhibited in the shop of Mr. Whitehead, Collins Street, Melbourne, including one of Coliban Falls, two of Mount Beckwith, one of Mile Creek, and the other two were unnamed.

[13] In November 1869, he had created two new works based on the landscapes in Talbot country, Victoria – one of Middle Creek near Clunes, and another of a swamp in the same area.

In the same year he exhibited A View on the Weatherboard (No.129) in the Agricultural Society of New South Wales' Annual Show, where he was award second prize.

[24][25] For the third New South Wales Academy of Arts exhibition in April 1874, Carse submitted a portrait of himself sitting in his studio working with brush and palette.

[28] For the fourth New South Wales Academy of Arts exhibition in March 1875, Carse submitted Bega Swamp and Views on the Wagonga River.

McMinn and H Wise, visited camps set up by the Academy of Arts in the Grose Valley, Blue Mountains.

He enjoyed commercial success, as an engraving of his drawing was included on the front cover of the Illustrated Melbourne Post later that year.

[4] An engraving of his painting of Aboriginals sitting around a fire on the shore of King George Sound was commissioned by Edwin Carton Booth.

Carse was now creating a large number of paintings but from this time they diminished both in quantity and originality as he reworked old subjects.