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Good Afternoon Everyone......

I would just like to show my latest acquisition a pair of paintings, one which I am sure that you know and have seen many times and a second which is not Boer War but may be of some interest..... Note these are actual paintings and not prints.....

THE FIRST PAINTING:

TITLE: THE DAWN OF MAJUBA 1900 – SURRENDER OF CRONJE - MORNING
FORMAT: WATER COLOUR
ARTIST: UNKNOWN – MAY BE SIGNED ON THE BACK BUT I DO NOT WANT TO TAKE IT APPART TO FIND OUT.
SIZE: OVERALL: 25 X 38 INCHES, ACTUAL PAINTING: 20 X 32 INCHES
BACKING: WOOD

Markings on water bottles: R.C.R. 2 (Royal Canadian Regiment, 2nd Special Service Battalion)

THE SECOND PAINTING:

TITLE: KING GEORGE V
FORMAT: OILS PAINTING
ARTIST: UNKNOWN – MAY BE SIGNED ON THE BACK BUT I DO NOT WANT TO TAKE IT APPART TO FIND OUT.
SIZE: OVERALL: 19 X 21 INCHES
BACKING: WOOD

Just have to find wall space to put them up.....

Mike

Mike,
May I be the first to offer space on my walls if you are struggling! Lol!
Thanks for sharing.
Steve

Lovely picture Mike,
I'm sure you will have seen this YouTube video about the original, but just in case:

Dawn of Majuba by Richard Caton Woodville

Neville

Thank you Neville.....

Would love to get in touch with the lady who did the talk.....

When you look closely at the painting you can see under the water colours a drawing in pencil.... Then has been coloured in with paint......

Possibly a student??????

Another painting that I have has the same, a watercolour with pencil background only one this has been authenticated.....

Mike

I expect you can contact the curator through the Royal Canadian Regiment Museum, London, Ontario …

“The most famous painting in the Museum collection came to the Institute in 1955, on permanent loan from the City of Toronto. Artist R. Caton Woodville painted “The Dawn of Majuba Day” in 1900. The painting celebrates the defeat of the Boers at Paardeburg Drift, South Africa , on 27th February, 1900. The painting, which shows the Royal Canadian Regiment in action, is the centerpiece of the Main Dining Room.”

But, given your location and interests I’m sure you know all this, and have probably visited the museum and seen the painting many times.

N

The rather mundane B&W print version (though the signature is nice) -



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