Original Watercolour "From Salisbury Island, Durban Bay " Dated April 1909.

This is an interesting original watercolour with a unique early view from Salisbury Island in Durban Bay.

At this time it was still a rustic island covered with trees. Later it was joined to the mainland and became a peninsula. But that was only during the Second World War when it became a naval base.  Later it was the site of a famous college for Indians in the apartheid days. Its graduates included Pravin Gordhan, one of the best government ministers this country ever had.

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.

Painting is 33 x 18 cm. More in frame.

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