Boekenhoutfontein (Paul Kruger`s Farm House - Print) - Gabriel de Jongh

Fine Art Print, dimensions of paper: 665 x 480mm, dimensions of print : 580 x 380mm, print has some vertical creases otherwise condition:very good.

Built near Rustenburg (1872) in the Cape Dutch style of the Colesberg area, Kruger lived and worked from the farm as Commandant General and Vice President of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek and was living here at the time of the annexation of the Transvaal.

Gabriel Cornelis de Jongh, painter, was the son of landscape artist, Tinus de Jongh. The farm and structure are mentioned in The Historical Monuments of South Africa by J.J Oberholster.