Education
Originally from England, where he trained at the Royal School of Design in Chester, he relocated to the United States. (specifically, New York City, where he later studied mechanical drawing in 1865) around 1862.
Originally from England, where he trained at the Royal School of Design in Chester, he relocated to the United States. (specifically, New York City, where he later studied mechanical drawing in 1865) around 1862.
He is recorded as having lived in Brooklyn from 1879 to 1907, during which he developed an eerie style of painting in which shapes would be repeated, flipped, and rotated over and over, while still remaining lifelike. He often signed his pieces "South.S. Carr". Some of his paintings have sold at auction for more than United States$70,000.
He was, at one time, the president of the Brooklyn Art Club and a member of a Masonic Lodge.