INVESTMENT ART !!! VIOLET FERGUSON-LOUW (1892 - 1973) LANDSCAPE OIL ON BOARD IN A VINTAGE FRAME

INVESTMENT ART !!! 

VIOLET FERGUSON-LOUW (1892 - 1973) LANDSCAPE OIL ON BOARD IN A VINTAGE FRAME

Violet Ferguson-Louw was a South African painter who travelled extensively all around South Africa and South West Africa (present-day Namibia). She was most noted for her landscapes and still lifes. She was a versatile painter who used charcoal, oil, water-colour and embroidery to capture diverse natural scenes on canvas. Personal Life Violet Volga Louw was born in 1892 and grew up on the Louw family farm Nuwejaarskraal near Prieska. She studied art at the Hugenot Seminary at Wellington, where she enrolled as a student in 1909. The family later moved to the farm Ankerpaal near Prieska. After she got married to a Scot, Archibold William Ferguson, she painted under the name Violet Ferguson-Louw. She had a son and two daughters. Although later divorced, she kept her husband’s name. She was known to be somewhat eccentric to outsiders. She spent her last days in an old age home in Britstown and died in 1973

FRAME IS 940 X 620mm - PAINTING SIZE IS 745 X 430mm

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