Strauss & co - 5 March 2018, Cape Town

148 394 John Falconer Slater BRITISH 1857-1937 A Boer signed oil on canvas 60 by 49,5cm R  –   This work was executed while the artist was running a shop on the diamond fields in South Africa. He subsequently returned to England to practise as a professional artist recording the countryside and sea views of his native Tyneside. 394 395 after Frederick Timpson I’Ons SOUTH AFRICAN 1802-1887 Chiefs in Council at the Kariega River signed by Annie I’Ons, dated 1885, and inscribed ‘del’ oil on canvas 44,5 by 72,5cm R  –   PROVENANCE The Galpin Family LITERATURE cf. Marion Arnold. (1996) Women and Art in South Africa , Claremont: David Philip. Page 50. Annie I’Ons (1864-1919) was the granddaughter of the artist, Frederick Timpson I’Ons. Marion Arnold, in her book Women and Art in South Africa , says the following: “Annie I’Ons learnt the rules of composition and methods of painting practised by her grandfather, who himself had had only a brief training in London before arriving in Grahamstown in 1834. Annie I’Ons began her artistic career by working on simple landscapes blocked out by her grandfather and graduated to producing copies of his popular paintings. Initially her painting was indistinguishable from her grandfather’s late work, which bore the signs of his deteriorating eyesight. The similarity in styles, exacerbated by confusion over signatures, has led to problems of identification. This lot is a copy of the painting Chiefs in Council at the Kariega River: Sandile, Sarhili, Siwani, The Witchdoctor Damo, Anta “Umgoongo” and Xhoxho , by Frederick Timpson I’Ons, the original of which is at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown. 395