Harold Boyes . Listed South African Artist. Exquisite Miniature Watercolour. Devil's Peak.

This is a remarkably unfaded and bright miniature watercolour in excellent condition.

Which is amazing considering this painting is about 80 to 100 years old. Or older.

Harold Henderson Boyes was born in 1886 in Caledon and died in 1958 in Gordon's Bay.

Harold Boyes was a painter of South African coastal scenes and landscapes. He worked in watercolour and oil. He was a member of the South African Society of Artists (SASA) and lived in Rondebosch, Cape Town, in the early 1900s. His picture "Gordon's Bay" was reproduced in the United SA Annual of 1934. He participated in group exhihbitions with SASA and at Lezards Johannesburg from c. 1915. He had his first Johannesburg solo exhibition in 1933 at Lezards.

On the back of the painting is written Miss MacLean, Greenhill, Kenilworth. And the view does look like that of Devil's Peak from Kenilworth. It may have been a commission from or gift to Miss MacLean.

Remarkably fine work. There is mysterious staircase leading out of the picture in slanting sunlight. The leaves of the trees are painted rather well.

The painting is 11.5 cm x 8 cm, more in the frame.

Secure packaging and tracked postage is R40.

Secure packaging and Posnet to Postnet is R99.