FRANS DAVID OERDER: ANGLO-BOEREOORLOGTEKENINGE EN SKILDERYE

Protea Bookhuis, 2017, hardcover, Afrikaans text,  illustrated, 238 pages, 24.8 cms x 25 cms, condition: as new.

Frans David Oerder (1867 1944) was a Dutch-born South African landscape, still-life and portrait painter, etcher, and lithographer. In the 1890s, Oerder was, along with Anton van Wouw and James Smith Moreland in Cape Town, one of only three artists in South Africa with recognised professional training.

With the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in 1899, he was appointed official war artist by President Paul Kruger. His sketches and paintings from this bitter period are held at the War Museum in Bloemfontein, the Africana Museum in Johannesburg and the art collection of the University of Pretoria.