Joseph Forsyth Ingram (1858-1923 ). Crossing the Tugela. Original Oil, Large (75 x 50 cm) cf Baines

Large original oil on canvas board, in excellent condition. Paiinting is 75 cm x 50 cm. Signed bottom left.

Excellent condition new frame which is 85 cm x 59 cm.

Joseph Forsyth Ingram FRGS   formed a close friendship as a young boy with Thomas Baines FRGS, and Baine's influence can be detected in Ingram's oil paintings.

Like Baines, Ingram was a polymath with many interests and an action-packed career.

Ingram also wrote books and poetry and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

He specialized in oil landscapes of Natal, where he lived for most of his life, and  painted a number of scenes of historical importance in Natal. 

He served in the Zulu Wars and the Anglo-Boer War., practiced as a journalist and gold prospector, and was a magistrate in Dundee in 1903 and Howick in 1917, having earlier been the assistant magistrate at Lion's River.  He later lived in Pietermaritzburg and died in Red Hill, Durban in 1923. 

( from The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors by Ogilvie, a short summary of the artist's life attached to the back of the painting, and various internet resources )

He was born in Belfast Northern Ireland in 1858 and came out to Natal as a young boy around 9 years old.  I found a very interesting summary of his life on the internet: 

There was an exhibition of his work at the Tatham Art  Gallery in Pietermaritzburg in 2006.  

In 2009 a larger oil landscape of a river scene like this one was sold by Cannon and Cannon of Hilton, Natal for over R40 000.