Original Watercolour "At Congella Near Durban " Dated May 1909.

This is an interesting original watercolour with a unique early view 

The painting is unsigned but is probably the work of Harold Boyes, a listed South African artist who lived in Cape Town, but travelled up the Southern African coast as far as Mozambique. He was actively painting around this time and the neat writing on the painting matches his own normal signature quite well.

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

At this time Congella was still a rustic village. It was the site of an early battle between Boers and British in 1842 when the British tried to oust the Boers from their settlement there. The end result was a siege and the famous ride of Dick King who rode to Grahamstown in 14 days to get the help which eventually ousted the Boers and kept Natal British.

Painting is 33 x 18 cm. More in frame.

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