Important South African Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 11 October 2010
Session Two
Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 8 783
About this Item
John Roland Brown
South African 1850-1923
Swartberg Pass, Meiringspoort
inscribed "After and by J Brown"
watercolour
38 by 55cm excluding frame
Notes
John Roland Brown was a hearing- and speech-impaired artist. He retired to Grahamstown circa 1902 where he held a one-man exhibition in 1916.
A similar example of this work is in the Albany Museum, Grahamstown
Literature
A Gordon-Brown, Pictorial Africana, Balkema, Cape Town, 1975, p129
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