Etching by Bertram Walter Dumbleton (SA 1896-1966)

Wonderful etching by South African master Bertram Walter Dumbleton. Frame measures 49cm x 44cm and image 25cm x 20cm. Light foxing in sky area. Postage R80 Sapo.

Bertram Walter Dumbleton was born 1896 in South Africa at George in the Cape Province. He studied at the Academic Julian in Paris and Regent Street Polytechnic in London.

Bertram Dumbleton was one of a number of artists chosen to represent South Africa at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley London, in 1924. He lived intermittently in England, Paris and Cape Town between 1925 and 1937. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.
 

When in South Africa, Bertram Dumbleton was a regular participating artist at the annual South African Society of Artists’ exhibition (SASA), where the South African National Gallery purchased a number of is works. From 1941 to 1946, he lectured at the University of Cape Towns Michaelis School of Fine Art.
 

He again lectured at Michaelis School in Cape Town from 1948 and in 1952, was represented at the Van Riebeeck Tercentenary Exhibition. Bertram Dumbleton died in Cape Town in 1966.